Orpheus & Euridyce Box

Acrylic on wood with bloodstone cabochon | 5.25" × 3.5" × 2.5"

Orpheus descended into the underworld with nothing but a lyre and a torch — and almost made it back. This box lives at that threshold. The lid is split by a hand-cut bloodstone column, its natural fracture glowing with torchlight from below, separating Hades from the world of the living. On the dark side: two small figures climbing toward an exit that depends entirely on faith. On the bright side: open sky, cypress trees, the life waiting above.

The cypress groves continue across both worlds — rooted in the underworld on the painted base, alive in sunlight on the lid. The asphodel fields ring the bottom, pale and still. The hardware is original to the box; everything else was made by hand from an unfinished wood substrate.

Orpheus looked back. The border between these two worlds remains open.

One of a kind.