A1 drawing,’I have to kill the children’

This is the final drawing in the trilogy that I made on Monday and was the most difficult for me in many ways. I meditated before doing it to protect and ground myself as I knew I would be dealing with the darkest aspect of Medea’s revenge, namely her decision to kill the children. The words she uses ,’have to’ suggest some outside authority not herself deciding to do this as an imperative. The moment of choice is a cold dispassionate one, but the decision once made as a thought inexorably manifests itself into the act. There seemed to be no going back once she had thought it. This is where she departs from the rest of us. Is she insane, she surely loved her children more than anything else? Not more than her need to punish Jason for his betrayal.