"Rosy-Fingered Dawn" by Candice Raquel Lee

Rosy-Fingered Dawn (edition of 4 in cast-stone)
Size (in): 24L x 10W x 9.5"H with optional black wooden base. $700 CAD including shipping (Also available in limited-edition bronze by request).

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The Sculpture: My sculpture represents the Greco-Roman goddess Dawn or Aurora, awakening from sleep to bring in the day, her hand rising like the sun with her body as the horizon.

I have endeavoured to capture the languid pose of a woman awakening but have made it into something more than a purely sensual thing, as my Aurora possesses the power of sun and earth, bringing light to darkness. Though she is reclining sensually, she brings up the sun simply by awakening and stretching. Power is intrinsic to her; it is part of her very being. Her beauty too is natural and awesome, like that of the rising sun, not something to be covered over in shame and a force that resists dismissive sexualization.

The metallic patina, which I have created myself, seeks to capture the mixed rose and blue colours of early morning. As the sunrise, Dawn's hand remains just a little brighter.

Rosy-Fingered Dawn is available as well upon request in bronze.

The Story: The ancient Greek poets frequently personified the dawn as a goddess with rosy fingers, an identification anyone who has awakened early in the morning can understand. Homer, epic poet of The Illiad and Odyssey, uses the epithet most famously in passages like this one from the Iliad: "Now from her couch where she lay beside high-born Tithonus, the goddess Dawn, rosy-fingered, arose to bring light to the gods and to mortals."

Tithonus, Dawn's husband, was supposedly victimized by the gods who granted him immortality at the request of Aurora but not eternal youth. Thus, he gradually wasted away until his wife turned him into a grasshopper out of pity.

E-mail: candice@candiceraquel.com | Phone: 519.853.9037