Entangled Trinities
Let Mother guide you.
Daughter
Mother
Grandmother
Heaven
Earth
Hell
Prostitute
Procuress
Priestess
Francisco Goya’s mural Las parcas (The Fates) is 14 feet long. “… we see four figures, not three. They are of exceptional ugliness. On the left of the group, Clotho holds a doll between her hands — a manikin that, in place of the thread, presumably represents a human life. Next to her is Lachesis, peering through a magnifying glass at what must be the life thread, so fine that her old eyes cannot discern it without a lens. The third weird sister, on the far right with her back turned to us, holds up a small pair of scissors to cut the thread: she must be Atropos. The problem is the fourth figure, who seems to be male. His arms are bound behind him. He is a captive…” —Goya, by Robert Hughes*