Antherion of the Fourfold

On her back rides the Fourfold — a goddess of four faces turned to the four directions. She and the creature cannot help but become part of the wood they run through. The painting borrows from the hunting tapestries of the medieval unicorn cycles, then lets the scales, the hint of cracked plaster, the oxidized color, and the fresco-worn palette suggest something older still — as if this scene had always existed on some monastery wall, half-forgotten, rediscovered only now.