Midas Touch
by Nick Kloepping
Title
Midas Touch
Artist
Nick Kloepping
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Digital Art
Description
After digitally altering this photo, a close friend looked at it and noticed that there was an outline of a face, left shoulder and arm, in the heart of the rose. Maybe a tormented Midas. Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wished for. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold.
Midas rejoiced in his new power, which he hastened to put to the test. He touched an oak twig and a stone; both turned to gold. Overjoyed, as soon as he got home, he ordered the servants to set a feast on the table. "So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer", Midas found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well.
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August 6th, 2014
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