From Self

Mary Lefkovitz’s seminal Women in Greek Mythology analyzes the power of primeval goddesses to conceive children without males, “for destructive or retaliatory purposes.” Among these goddesses was Nyx (i.e., "Night") who, in Hesiod’s Theogony, “bore Doom and dark Fate and Death, … bore Blame and miserable Woe, [and Retribution, Deceit, and Strife], having slept with none of the gods.” Olena M. Marshall's mixed media objects update the Nyx myth by multiplying an image of her self as a child, thereby calling on the viewer to consider a woman’s – and the artist’s own – dark potentialities and inquire which have been actualized.