The Medusa story was better explored later on that night. The upper three studies are two 10-minute ones and a 15-minute one , with B- and N- riffing on Athena's punishment of Medusa, turning her into the gorgon. For 25 minutes, A- joined them to stage Medusa's demise. Finally, after a break, the three of them took a 45-minute post-decapitation tableau.
As usual, the costumes and props and multi-figure groupings were a challenge, and I'm not giving Caravaggio a run for his money any time soon.
I was focused on documenting what was happening with the people modelling in the session, versus shifting the images into more overt narrative versions of the story being represented.
An unfortunate mishap for their rigger meant that the signature quirk of rope harness decoration was absent from the models. I felt in this case, that worked out fine. The combination of rope patterns and snake headgear might have added to Medusa's transformation into something extra-human, but otherwise the ropework would be a non-sequitur.
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