Weaving is a slow and solitary practice and as music has always been a great companion in my life, it is now my best companion while working on the loom as well. Music has also been a great inspiration for me thought out my creative journey. It is of course an abstract connection, but it is there, in the weaving - the emotional state and the rhythm of it.

Persephone’s Dream | A Case of Materiality

This particular collection has been inspired by the poem-song ‘Persephone’s Nightmare’* and every piece of the collection has been named after a song name, creating a hidden playlist.

*’Persephone’s Nightmare’ included in Manos Hadjidakis’ album “Ta Paraloga” (“The irrationals”) , 1976 - Lyrics: Nikos Gatsos, Composer: Manos Hadjidakis, Performer: Maria Farandouri. It sets modern Greek environmental issues against Greek mythology: Eleusis is the setting for the most important ancient shrine of Demeter and Persephone, goddesses associated with Earth’s fertility, and a modern industrial wasteland. It’s a lament about how Eleusina was ended up. A sacred place in ancient Greece, and famous all over the ancient world for the Eleusinian mysteries and the cult of Demeter and Persephone, a beautiful natural landscape was lost forever in order to become the most polluted and industrialized place in Greece. The poem focuses mainly on the aesthetic pollution and abuse of the once sacred, respectful, and untouchable place. It makes many hints too, either direct or indirect, about the downgrading of life quality and public health.