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Proteus
Workshop offers:
- Giclee limited-edition printmaking and digital scanning services for artists, designers and photographers
- Original and reproduction art from several distinquished artists
- PR, Press Newswire and Agent services for artists and arts related institutions
- Sales and marketing consulting services for technology and digital services firms, including lead generation and AdWord programs, as well as key personnel search services
- Web and print design services
Where
the name "Proteus" Workshop comes from
PROTEUS,
in Greek mythology, a prophetic old man of the sea. According to Homer,
his resting-place was the island of Pharos, near the mouth of the Nile;
in Virgil his home is the island of Carpathus, between Crete and Rhodes.
He knew all things past, present and future, but was 10th to tell what
he knew. Those who would consult him had first to surprise and bind him
during his noonday slumber in a cave by the sea, where he was wont to
pass the heat of the day surrounded by his seals. Even when caught he
would try to escape by assuming all sorts of shapes: now he was a lion,
now a serpent, a leopard, a boar, a tree, fire, water. But if his captor
held him fast the god at last returned to his proper shape, gave the wished-for
answer, and then plunged into the sea. He was subject to Poseidon, and
acted as shepherd to his " flocks." In post-Homeric times the
story ran that Proteus was the son of Poseidon and a king of Egypt, to
whose court Helen was taken by Hermes after she had been carried off,
Paris being accompanied to Troy by a phantom substituted for her.
This is the story followed by Herodotus (ii. ff2, 118), who got it from
Egyptian priests, and by Euripides in the Helena. From his power of assuming
whatever shape he pleased Proteus came to be regarded, especially by the
Orphic mystics, as a symbol of the original matter from which the world
was created. Rather he is typical of the ever-changing aspect of the sea
(Homer, Odyssey, iv. 35I Virgil, Georgics. iv. 386). (From the Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1911.)
AND
its
a Workshop, because thats where the WORK GETS DONE!
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