„Kassandra“ is a project about the character of the same name from Greek mythology. She saw the future of Troy, of her people and her family and warned them all in so many desperate attempts to save them, but no one would ever listen to her words. Only after Troy had already burned, the city and people covered in ash, did the survivors take her words seriously. My retelling of the story, put in order and easier to understand is therefore also “covered in ash”. Free of ash is only the depiction of the events as Kassandra experienced them - living in all terrible moments of her life simultaneously - where the composition had to distance itself from a traditional depiction of a real location. A variety of different artistic techniques were used, which, like the texts used and the artists inspired by, come from different millennia. Inspiration was drawn from paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Evelyn De Morgan, William Turner, Richard Wilson, Rembrandt van Rijn, Aert van der Neer, Caspar David Friedrich, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, as well as from ancient greek artifacts and archeological sites. The underpainting of the painting shown here was painted digitally, then printed on canvas and afterwards thoroughly primed with clear gesso. Dozens of thin glazing layers were then painted over the underpainting before and after painting with un-thinned oil paints.