Narcissus and Echo by George Anastasiadis (Original Drawing)

On the left, Narcissus, trapped in his EGO, punished by Nemesis, lies alone, a sad, real sad man, watching his image until the final decomposition of his physical body takes place.
His body breaks like an old statue and its pieces are scattered in the wind. Even in Hades, Narcissus remains trapped watching himself in the black waters of Styx.

Egoism is the worst of passions and Loneliness is the worst punishment.

Hell is an infinite feeling of loneliness wrapped around in eternal oblivion where the forgotten soul still remains trapped in its EGO.

Right in the center is the “Echo”.
For some, Echo is the beautiful, twin sister of Narcissus, with whom he was in love. Narcissus found no consolation in his misery except to be left alone watching himself in the water of a spring in Thespies just to remember his sister. Finally, he died in that position from exhaustion.

According to another tradition, Echo was a nymph who was wandering in the woods, saw, and fell in love with Narcissus. She tried to seduce him with her beauty, but Narcissus was already absorbed in his own beauty. She then used her voice but to no avail. This rejection resulted in the nymph falling into deep sorrow, hiding in the woods, and her physical existence slowly disappearing so that only her voice remained, which still sounds like a repetition of other people’s words. When the gods out of pity transformed her into a rock, he retained the quality of repeating the last syllables, of whatever voice reached him.

Behind Echo appears a mirror, as a symbol of human vanity of perishable natural beauty. Inside it reflects nothing but the image of the flower on the right and the glow of the human soul. In front of Echo, a field in the shape of a bulb, plowed with the strips of black water of Styx and full of millions of seeds of Love that have as a starting point Echo herself and the water from which she emerges, as a symbol of Life. The same water that took Narcissus’ soul, now gives life and hope.
From behind the white/greyish colored void as a symbol of the Unknown …

On the right, we see the worn statue of Narcissus as his burial monument. In the place where Narcissus died, after a while, the homonymous flower sprouted as a symbol of decay and the chthonic deities.