The Education of the Third Miko is a painting by Fernanda Daté.
Description[]
The painting is of a thin woman looking directly out at the viewer. The oil paint that Daté used gives an eerie impression of direct eye contact. The figure is seated on a throne of skulls, and a single pale tear streaked her left cheek.
History[]
Aliana Tanaka had written about the context for the image in Daté’s life — the nonresponsive cancer that the artist was struggling with when the painting was made, the threat of war between Earth and Mars that she’d grown up with, and her admiration for the Shintofascist philosophies of Umoja Gui. The distress of the third Miko depicted the aftermath of Daté’s self-revelation and acceptance of her own compromised nature.[1]
References
- ↑ The Expanse Novel Leviathan Falls - Chapter 24: The Lighthouse and the Keeper