All images © William Pitcher 2006-2010

"Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers." - Carl Jung

Atlas
(the air we breathe)

Fall
(life is a gamble)

Works in progress include poses based on:

- Leon Francois Comerre ("Danae and the Shower of Gold" representing the feminine use of gold)

- Gaston Bussiere ("The Nereides" representing Spring)
- From Antiquity ("Demeter's Footprints " representing Summer)

- Picasso (A modern companion for "The Three Graces")

- Sandro Botticelli ("Birth of Venus" - Oh the irony of it all)
- William Bouguereau's ("La Vague" representing global warming)

- William Bouguereau's "Orestes Pursued by the Furies"

The Window Gallery at Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC

Pano view - "Ancient Myths & Modern Metaphors" at the Art Gallery of Golden

A full house at the opening.

Penticton closing.

- Night (buzzed by mosquitoes)
- Dawn (Eos) sips her morning coffee over the Rockies
- Day (Hemera) is seen over the Columbia Basin with a new treat for the gods
- Evening (Hesperis) has settled in at Long Beach

- Atlas (with a Canadian Zodiac)
- Pandora (unleashes the consequences of consumerism at a Walmart Store)
- A Prairie Siren (is defending the prairie - a lost cause)
- Circe (adding a little of this and a little of that to our food chain)
- A Mermaid (100% Canadian)

- Artemis (Goddess of the hunt, protector of wildlife, and protector of adolescent girls)
- Andromeda (The original damsel in distress) is chained to a rock in Vancouver Harbour
- Danae (with a twist - the masculine use of gold)

- Fall (Iris, goddess of rainbows tries her luck)
- Winter (A winter nymph and a polar bear named Debbie)

- The Lost Pleiad (Electra) is visible over Calgary
- Selene (Full Moon) travels across the sky above Banff
- Nyx (born out of Chaos, and trying to sleep)


- The Three Graces (making a point)

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