The Breaking Through

This work represents a portrait of a relationship, inspired by a familiarity with
Ovid's Metamorphoses...

Ovid was a prolific Roman poet whose writing influenced Chaucer, Shakespeare,
Dante, and Milton, and contemporaneously, Elemaria.

As its title suggests, The Breaking Through is an exploration of transformations through the constant cycle of new relationships, and relationship is a vehicle for transformation ...

Some of the work is straightforward and literal: others more metaphorical and conceptual and combine the figurative and the abstract. We are in connection with each other by a constant cycle of new relationships, as we go through different stages, sometimes going deeper and sometimes through periods of metamorphoses, and different layers of transformation.

Ovid suggests that subtle or figurative transformations can be just as dangerous as literal ones. He also suggests that only art enables people to transcend suffering. He condemns those characters who do not appreciate nor can create art, and praises those who do.
In Ovid’s work, love almost never leads to a happy ending, emphasizing the disastrous quality of all romances. Elemaria entitles the last work The Happy Ending. However, as Ovid said, ‘a lasting happiness?’ that is another narrative.

Among other things, The Breaking Through is a series of narratives and narratives within embedded narratives.

Takes these narratives as a starting point and then reverse your expectation, they will surprise and draw you into the plot.

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