Three new pieces of the ‘Persephone’s Dream’ Collection, are now available (in-shop and online) at Flow Gallery.

'Persephone's Dream' Collection draws inspiration from the poem 'Persephone's Nightmare'* and is my comment on today's environmental crisis caused by mass production and fast fashion. By only using natural undyed and fashion waste yarns, I aspire to reconnect with nature and its raw materials and create contemporary work while reinterpreting traditional weaving techniques while embracing a slow-making zero-waste philosophy and practice.

*'Persephone's Nightmare' is a poem-song 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.

The new pieces are inspired by the colours of the Cycladic landscape and its wind-sculptured beaches. Every piece’s name is named after a song and the whole collection works as a hidden playlist.

*On the Sea* Throw; handwoven; natural undyed British wool, natural undyed British alpaca, recycled cotton, waste dyed wool/cashmere/linen; approx. 165 x 140 cm

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