TWO Birthdays!

[whiteling]

A Very Happy Birthday to
Mr. Johnny Depp
and
siriuss3 !!

I hope you both have a most enjoyable day! Luck and success for your new year to come!

What would be more obvious than to post a piece of art for an artist's birthday? A piece of art with Johnny in it to boot?
Dear Siriuss, I hope you will forgive me that I took the shortcut and made a photomanip for you... the drawing I am at will take some time longer.
I inserted Johnny's lovely head into one of my favourite artworks - Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864) by Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau:

Caution! Very lightly dressed persons ahead!



It is said that the Sphinx guarded the entrance to the ancient Greek city of Thebes, asking a riddle of travellers to allow them passage.
This most famous riddle in history was: “Which creature in the morning goes on four legs, at mid-day on two, and in the evening upon three, and the more legs it has, the weaker it be?”
The Sphinx strangled and devoured anyone unable to answer. Only Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: "Man-who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age."

In my version of the picture though, Johnny Oedipus seems to have the Sphinx guessing vice versa... "Whaddayathink, Miss Sphinx, how old did I turn today? Huh?"
"Uhh... erm.... --- thirty...? Thirty-two...?"

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Here you can have a look at the original painting:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Oedipus_und_die_Sphinx_(Gustave_Moreau).jpg