{"title":"The Homeric Epic Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Homeric Epic Collection is a 4 part collection mused from the known Homeric Epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Each piece is inspired directly by a scene in either poem, focused on a character or key moment including Helen of Troy’s guilt for her role in the Trojan war, Achilles’ divine rage against the Trojans for killing Patroclus, Penelope tricking the suitors by undoing her weaving each night, and Odysseus making an impossible choice that has no happy endings. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach piece is 100% original to the artist, hand-burned, and coated with a non-toxic oil for protection against sun damage. Pyrography work by Nicole Fanaff is only burned one time, and will not the designs will no be burned to wood again once sold. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"achilles-fights-the-river-god","title":"Achilles Fights The River God","description":"\u003cp\u003eAchilles Fights The River God, Homeric Epic Collection, 2026. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAchilles Fights The River God, a pyrography artwork in the Homeric Epic collection, is hand burned and signed by pyrography artist Nicole Fanaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAchilles Fights The River God was mused after the scene in the Iliad, a nearly 3,000 year old poem credited to Greek poet Homer, where Achilles turns his rage to Scamander, the river god, after he has littered Scamander’s river with the bodies of Trojans soldiers after finding out Hector killed Patroclus. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScamander tries to drown a raging Achilles, symbolizing his outward rage into the old saying “drowning in your grief”. This piece hits home for the artist, who poured her own grief of losing her mom into Achilles’ grief. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoplar wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 x 11 x 0.75\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill include hardware, ready to hang\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNon-toxic oil finish applied for protection \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Nicole Fanaff Pyrography","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49333471248643,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/4280\/5763\/files\/D6EC8AC2-F043-47CF-A6F9-F56F63FE2DEF.jpg?v=1785111535"},{"product_id":"helen-s-guilt","title":"Helen’s Guilt","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen’s Guilt, Homeric Epic Collection, 2026. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen’s Guilt, a pyrography artwork in the Homeric Epic collection, is hand burned and signed by pyrography artist Nicole Fanaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen’s Guilt was mused after reading the vague descriptions of Helen of Troy. With only 3 physical descriptions of Helen (“white-armed”, “lovely-haired”, and “long-robbed”) the artist took inspiration from beauty standards of Mycenaean women of high status to model features of Helen while still achieving a vague silhouette of the “face that launched 1,000 ships”. Helen’s guilty conscience was another main description Homer’s, The Iliad, used to describe her, even in her introductory scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen wears her guilt like a robe, adorning the shadows of the violent deaths her countrymen faced, an ugly stain on her beauty, burned forever on an imperfect and ugly wood canvas. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSalvaged wood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoles reinforced with epoxy and wood filler \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21.8 x 11.5 x 1.2 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill include hardware, ready to hang \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNon-toxic oil finish applied for protection \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Nicole Fanaff Pyrography","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49333504344323,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/4280\/5763\/files\/7401D49E-946F-442C-8187-2EBD26D35311.jpg?v=1785188769"},{"product_id":"penelopes-faithful-trick","title":"Penelope's Faithful Trick","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenelope's Faithful Trick, Homeric Epic Collection, 2026. Hand-burned and signed by pyrography artist Nicole Fanaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenelope's Faithful Trick was mused after Penelope's famous delaying tactic in Homer's The Odyssey, where she tricks the suitors for years by promising to marry one of them after the completion of the burial shroud for her Odysseus's father, Laertes, only to undo her progress every night. As a woman of the Odyssey, Penelope embodies cleverness and loyalty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition of the piece is influenced by Baroque painter Caravaggio's use of light and darkness and how the lamp is the only source bringing Penelope's trick to the light. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoplar\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 x 11 x 0.75 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill include hardware, ready to hang \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNon-toxic oil finish applied for protection \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Nicole Fanaff Pyrography","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49334501540099,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/4280\/5763\/files\/F7EDC68C-B2AE-49FD-BCC3-85F17404832A.jpg?v=1785188865"},{"product_id":"the-cost-of-choosing-between-monsters","title":"The Cost of Choosing Between Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Cost of Choosing Between Monsters, Homeric Epic Collection, 2026. Hand-burned and signed by pyrography artist Nicole Fanaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cost of Choosing Between Monsters was mused at the crossroads of Odysseus deciding between sacrificing 6 men to Scylla or sacrificing the whole ship to Charybdis when met with both monsters. 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