Hypnos

White Carrara marble, Belgium Black marble, 50x40x20 cm

In Greek mythology Hypnos was the personification of sleep and the god of slumber.
He was the son of Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness) and the brother of Thanatos (Death). He lived
in a cave in the underworld, near the river Lethe (Forgetfulness).
He was responsible for bringing sleep to all living things, by puting a person to sleep, could enable
them to forget all of their worldly worries. At the same time Hypnos was the dearest friend of
the Muses, and his wife was Pasithea, the most beautiful of the Graces.

I was lucky to find this very special piece of Carrara marble with very particular coloring:
half of the stone is almost pure white, the other half – with intense dark gray lines.
This stone reflects the double nature of Hypnos: sleep and death, beauty and forgetfulness,
dreams and reality, and also his connection to muses, graces and art, binding it all together.
I managed to carve the stone the way that the separatoon line (light and darkness) comes over his
eyes, and the natural coloring of the marble makes his eyes to seem close and open at the same time