{"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","url":"https:\/\/nicolefanaffpyrography.com\/products\/helen-s-guilt","provider":"Nicole Fanaff Pyrography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}