These two characters represent the mixture
of evil and good in human beings but also, in their love for Lyra and their sacrificial acts, a
powerful symbol of redemption and transformation in the face
of evil.
Painter Deborah Brown's latest work both embraces and critiques the concept
of the Chimera as she reimagines narratives taken from mythology, religion, and literature by placing a
powerful female figure at the center
of these stories in which women are typically
symbols of moral virtue or seductive
evil, often held hostage by male desire to possess.