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Eurydice, shortly after her marriage to Orpheus, while wandering with the nymphs, was seen by the shepherd Aristaeus, who was struck by her beauty and made advances to her. She fled, and in flying trod upon a snake in the grass, was bitten in the foot, and died. Orpheus resolved to seek his wife in the regions of the dead. He passed through crowds of ghosts and presented himself before the throne of Pluto and Proserpine. Orpheus was permitted to take her away with him on one condition, that he should not turn around to look at her till they should have reached the upper air. Under this condition they proceeded on their way, he leading, she following, through passages dark and steep, in total silence, till they had nearly reached the outlet into the cheerful upper world, when Orpheus, in a moment of forgetfulness, cast a glance behind him, when instantly she was borne away |
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This photograph was taken in an abandoned railway tunnel. The coloured shapes were made by painting with oil paints onto a sheet of glass the placing a piece of paper over it and peeling it off while the paint was still wet. This was then photographed and added to the first picture as a paper negative, in a similar way to "aphrodite" but this time the first picture was printed only once, and the paper negative combined on top.
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