‘Among the cornucopia of artworks dressing the sex mansions and suburban households of Pizzolatto’s dark vision of LA, Athena’s painting was commissioned from Brooklyn artist William Logan, who describes his work as “[sitting] somewhere right between abstraction and representation.” Working with DiGerlando and Oscar-winning set designer Karen O'Hara, Logan captured the “woman drowning on dry land” that seems an apt description of McAdams’ lonely, combative portrayal of the fraught Bezzerides.
“The piece is based on a drawing I did in the Met of the Statue of Sappho, by Comte Prosper d’Epinay, an amazing statue by that has always gripped me for its subtle descriptions of despair and piercing rendering of passion,” Logan tells The Creators Project. He admits to only being caught up on episode two of True Detective himself, but thorough conversation with the art department led him to a good fit. “It does seem like Sappho could be said to be drowning under the weight of her inner emotions in this statue. She was a very sensitive poet from antiquity, and perhaps Athena is implying that by repressing her emotions, Antigone is drowning herself, just like her mother.”
