Of Her Delights She Unto Him Betrayed, 2012

This photograph is excerpted from Meghan Boody’s Psyche and the Beast series and provides close-up cameo appearances of characters in her psychodrama of dark love in an underground world. The titles of these pieces are drawn from Spenser’s epic poem “The Fairy Queen” and the names of perfumes.

This dark realm shelters other creatures, all worshipful of Psyche, their imprisoned queen. Here a carefree moment is captured between Psyche and the Beast: a ray of light in the gloominess of their surroundings and a portent of a brighter future.

Meghan Boody tells stories about women who embark (or find themselves embroiled) in character-transforming quests. These mythic journeys are often perilous and lead to confrontation with dark forces that induce internal change. Fascinated with the mechanism of psychological transformation and the resistance it often provokes, Boody imagines her pictures as allegorical guidebooks or imprints of this process.

Known as a pioneer of Photoshop and digital imaging, her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubin Museum, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and the Orlando Museum of Art.

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