Lowering into the Chamber Flag

Wall hanging painted flag made of fabric, bullion and wood measuring 26.5" x 22". This piece measures a total of 35" long when hanging from golden cord hanger. A suppliant is lowered into a chasm-like pit in the earth, before the rock arch threshold. Inside the dark chamber, the suppliant holds honey cakes in each hand as  offering to the thonian serpents, the attendants of the god. They are also the go-betweens for the bees, who ultimately receive their own life force treasure, the honey. This piece of art belongs to a larger body of work entitled “Recently Discovered Artifacts”, a site-specific art installation presenting a cache of hidden “artifacts” from a fictional secret antiquarian society, once active in the historic building where Gold Bug operates in Old Pasadena, California. THE FRATERNAL SOCIETY OF SUPPLIANTS TO TROPHONIOS(F.S.O.S.T.) This mock exhibition is part of a collaborative, surrealist imagining built around some paintings by artist John Griswold, retroactively seek