Nuht of the Night Sky: Home

This painting is about art and myth, and the way their themes interlace with our lives. These pleasures (play, imagination, and cultural memory) suffuse our lives from the beginning and help us love and live and die. Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, stands as guardian and judge of the identities we create for ourselves and, to a certain degree, for others. Nhut, goddess of the night sky, arches across the firmament, swallowing the light at dusk and giving birth to it each dawn. She is the lover and the nurturer, representing the natural cycles of life.