saraph18000: „Wie schön Ich sprechen würde.” (“How beautifully I would s
saraph18000: „Wie schön Ich sprechen würde.” (“How beautifully I would speak”) - Leon Naffin (2021) digital panel painting, inkjet print on screen printing plate […] As he divided them he told Apollo to take each separated half and turn round the face and half neck to the cut side, so that each person by contemplating its own cut surface might behave more moderately. He also told Apollo to heal their wounds. So Apollo proceeded to turn the faces round and gathered the skin all together on the belly, as we now call it, like a purse with a drawstring, leaving one opening in the centre which he fastened with a knot, and which is now called the navel. He also smoothed out most of the wrinkles and fashioned the chest, using a tool such as shoemakers use when they smooth out wrinkles in leather on the last. But he let a few wrinkles remain, around the belly and navel, to be a reminder of what happened ages ago.[…] -- source link