Eight years ago I painted this. Mythology gets me going - the whole gods and mortals doing incredible things, turning into trees, etc. is captivating. And here Apollo almost grasps Daphne only to be thwarted by Zeus who turns her into a tree as an answer to her prayer: "Zeus save me."
In my version Daphne turns into a field of kudzu - that's a southern twist. The woman I sold this to didn't know anything about the myth. She bought this painting because it went well with her sofa. She claimed to have lived in Pensacola, FL but when I mentioned kudzu to her, she looked at me and said, "I've never seen anything like that. I don't know what you're talking about."
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