Persephone Splits
I am obsessed with the Greek myth of Persephone. Persephone divides her time between two worlds: a dutiful daughter on earth with her powerful mother, Demeter, and a queen in the underworld with her husband, Hades, who abducted her while she was picking flowers in a field with her friends. The story of how she came to split her time is one of bargains struck, hearts broken, trickery, violence, and perhaps, personal choice.
Using traditional and alternative photographic processes to represent Persephone’s story, I explore the dichotomies of lust and love, bounty and famine, life and death. In the underworld, Persephone ate—or planted—the seeds of a pomegranate, an act that sealed her fate. Each summer she returns to the living world to nurture others and bring renewal; in winter, when nothing grows, she descends once more to the underworld.this body of work blu blu
Using traditional and alternative photographic processes to represent Persephone’s story, I explore the dichotomies of lust and love, bounty and famine, life and death. In the underworld, Persephone ate—or planted—the seeds of a pomegranate, an act that sealed her fate. Each summer she returns to the living world to nurture others and bring renewal; in winter, when nothing grows, she descends once more to the underworld.this body of work blu blu