The Voyage — Teravarna Halloween Art Challenge 2025

The Voyage

Inspired by John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott (1888), reimagined as The Voyage, where the Lady awakens into the otherworld, guided by spectral light and memory.

Concept & Artwork: Annita Apostolidou Platis
Medium: Mixed Media Digital Collage (2025)

In this haunting reinterpretation, she is no longer a tragic figure but a voyager between worlds.
Her boat, veiled in a Persian tapestry of black and gold, becomes her vessel between realms — gliding through mist and candlelight.

Candles and carved pumpkin lanterns illuminate the fog, while sculpted golden eyes descend from above, divine witnesses to her rebirth.
Above her, two Persian rugs drift like celestial veils, guardians of memory and fate.

In her hands, a small cage glows with the presence of a black cat, guiding her beyond the veil.
The forest hums with fireflies, and light itself bends between dusk and dawn.

Myth and mortality. A journey from silence to eternal sight.

Artist Insight – “The Lady of Shalott” → “The Voyage”

In John William Waterhouse’s 1888 masterpiece, The Lady of Shalott drifts toward Camelot in the moment of her death — the curse fulfilled, her voice fading into legend.
In my reimagined version, she does not die. She awakens.
The river becomes the threshold between worlds, the fog her veil of rebirth.
The woven tapestry that once imprisoned her transforms into a sacred vessel of transcendence.
Candles, golden eyes, and a black cat as her silent familiar guide her through the in-between — no longer the doomed maiden, but The Voyage, seer of her own destiny.
This work continues her story beyond the tragedy, allowing her spirit to cross into myth and memory — where silence becomes vision, and the curse becomes illumination.

Annita Apostolidou Platis

Visual Artist

Painter | Exhibition Essayist | Curator| Fashion and Jewelry Designer | Interior Designer | Poet and Writer