Is that a Dagger?

("Is that a Dagger that I see before me?", C.nick Arach, 2010)

This drawing was inspired by the dagger scene from Macbeth:

"MACBETH: Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw."


*Notice how the frame tells the story up until that point.

 

You can find the painted version here.

C.nick Arach