A hillside emergence influenced by Parmenides’ poem, On Nature, describing his ride into the underworld. A consideration of near death, the ancient rites of Apollo, and the shepherd. The pieces are made from the gleaning and reformulating of abandoned elements from Styra in rural Evia, Greece.
“Pulling the chariot at full stretch”
A downhill path leads to twin columns
At the gate: metal twisted into a digital ‘8’
Lemniscate – Rebar, tire, and burnt wood
“The sound the chariot makes as the daughters of the sun draw him along, the sound of a pipe (syrinx)”
Syrinx – 12 red telescopic poles
Thin red lines
Lines of red in the wildflowers
Conducting to an abandoned mill
“In the middle of these is the divinity (daimōn) who steers everything”
Daimōn – Rebar, metal coil, wax, PVC floating fish, persimmon, acrylic nails