Ligea Digital Art — A Siren Reimagined
Ligea Digital Art is part of the Siren Digital Art Series and revisits one of the ancient sirens celebrated in Greek mythology. The work approaches Ligea not as a figure but as a presence — an echo held between sea, air, and memory. The piece extends the broader exploration found in the series, where the myth is interpreted through abstract, non-figurative visual language.
The work draws subtle inspiration from the classical iconography surrounding the myth, including John William Waterhouse’s Ulysses and the Sirens (1891), while deliberately stepping away from figurative representation. Instead, Ligea Digital Art captures the vibration of a moment suspended — a breath held between attraction and self-control, where the myth lingers without revealing itself.
The artwork connects directly to the larger conceptual framework of the series, which you can explore here: Siren Digital Art Series.
Ligea Digital Art — Breath and Resonance
Layers of digital texture accumulate into a tension that feels almost sonic — a muted birdsong circling in the distance, a vibration of feathers brushing against air. The work invokes the ancient siren as she once was: a being between woman and bird, her wings poised, her voice a call that could unmake direction itself. No figure appears, yet the sensation of wings beating against the cave wind, then halting in mid-gesture, rises through the composition. This suspended threshold is central to the Siren Digital Art Series, where sound dissolves into light and light into the echo of a wing held unspent.
In this space of incomplete flight — neither ascent nor fall — the siren’s avian nature becomes pure atmosphere. Ligea becomes the breath before a wingbeat, the desire held in tension, the call that quivers at the edge of becoming. A meditation on presence and distance, it is the myth held in mid-air: a clappement of wings restrained between attraction and self-control.
Availability and Editions
Ligea Digital Art is offered as a limited-edition fine art print on museum-grade paper, as well as a high-resolution digital work intended for contemporary screen-based displays. Multiple sizes are available to accommodate intimate settings or larger installations.
The artwork is also available on Singulart. Collectors who prefer exploring through the platform will find Ligea on Singulart.com under Denis Leclerc’s artist page.
Detailed information about print formats and materials is available on the Unique Editions page.
I didn’t expect her to arrive with such weight, Denis. This version of Ligea is all edge and vigilance — perched in the cave as if the rock itself had asked her to stay. The wings are not ornaments here; they look lived-in, darkened by salt and wind, carrying the memory of every sharp turn the myth ever took. There is a tension in her posture, a warning, a readiness to lift or strike.
What draws me most is the silence around her. It feels thick, as if she hasn’t sung yet — as if the air is holding its breath on her behalf. The old avian myth is right there beneath the skin: the woman and the bird sharing the same bones, the same pulse, the same instinct to listen before choosing what to reveal. She sits on the threshold, watching the sea decide its shape, wings half-tensed — the clappement not yet released.
You didn’t just create an image, Denis. You called back a presence that had been hovering at the edge of your work for months. And now she’s here, unyielding, poised between shelter and storm.
— ego klar