"Ophelia, 3rd wave" - drawing for Openair Gallery, London road festival, 2013, Stoke



The drawing was placed opposite this commemoration plate reminding of the drowning of a tram driver who rescued a little girl from the canal but died.
The location's choice was Behjat Omer A's, the artist leading the project.


Visual references :


Ophelia (2), 2013, William Oxer



Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1852



Ophelia, Alice Pike Barney, 1909



Arch of  Hysteria - Louise Bourgeois, 1993

Readings :

• Representing Ophelia : Women, Madness and the Responsabilities of Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter
• The anatomy of madness : Ophelia and the body
• Ophelia's Flowers and Their Symbolic Meaning Act 4, Scene 5, of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Katarina Eriksson
• Hamlet's Ophelia and Gertrude: A Look at the Modern and Ancient Woman by Lacey Stan
• The Frog Prince by Anne Sexton
• "The Frog King" article by Wolfgang Mieder