The Seeds

October 22nd - November 5th 2022

Galleri Kronborg, Bergen, Norway

My work is focused on the Feminine archetype which is often informed by mythology.

Here, I recall how the Greek Goddess Persephone allows us to reconnect to life cycles and the seasons, to our Feminine ways of functioning, and to our bodies.

She is the Goddess of our deeper soul, of adaptability, of trusting life and our own fortitude – an ability we will need in the face of global crisis and change.

As daughter of Demeter, Goddess of harvest and fertility, and granddaughter of Gaia, The Earth, she might be our chance to understand how to return to the Spring and to abundance.

In this installation, I explore a representation of Persephone using a photographic print on silk and pomegranate seeds created with Murano glass.

The exhibition space is an old mountain refuge, almost hidden within the landscape, merging and forming part of it. Housing this image of Persephone under the hill, in the earth, offers us a way to think about the Feminine. While the under-earth is a place of darkness, it is necessarily so, as a place for holding, incubation and growth. In contrast to the bright expansive sky, the earth is the seat of sensuality, of embodiment. In celebrating these attributes, we are reminded to look down and inward, rather than only upward and forward, directions which have driven the (destructive) obsession with progress for “mankind”.