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Narcissus and Echo

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“Narcissus and Echo” is a reinterpretation of the story of Narcissus from Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Echo was a forest nymph that was under the rule of Hera, Zeus's wife, and Echo was very chatty and distracted Hera while Zeus was having love affairs so to punish Echo, Hera made it so the only words she could ever repeat were the last words of someone else - which is where the concept of an echo comes from. Echo was disheartened and went into the forest to hide where she found an attractive man named Narcissus. Echo proclaimed her love to Narcissus but he rejected her. Echo shrunk back into the depths of the forest to where she would hide for eternity. Narcissus went down to the water where he saw his reflection so clearly that he fell in love with his own reflection and fell into the water and drowned. His body deteriorated and yellow flowers grew from the place where he drowned, which is what has now become known as a Narcissus flower. In “Narcissus and Echo,” the player is surrounded by yellow flowers referencing the Narcissus flower. There is a glitched sculpture of Hera and then a glitched figure of Narcissus staring into the water. Echo the forest nymph is flying around the scene laughing. Additionally, the piece has some easter eggs related to the previous three pieces created for Explainer Gallery. -Environment created using Unity Game Engine -Columns wrapped in video textures created using the Sandin Image Processor -Glitched Narcissus created using Processing and Audacity -Echo the Forest Nymph created using Character Creator 4 and Blender -Sculpture of Hera glitched using ChatGPT4 and Blender -Audio created using Audacity and Adobe Audition Artist: @Micah_Alhadeff (Explainer - 89)

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