38 × 41 × 16.5 cm / 15.0 × 16.1 × 6.5 inches (H × W × D)
Crocus
from the series Myths of Encounter
This vase forms part of a series drawing on the visual language of ancient Greek ceramics. The imagery references the myth of Hermes and Crocus, a beautiful youth accidentally killed when Hermes’ discus strikes him during an athletic game. From Crocus’ spilt blood the crocus flower emerges, transforming loss into a lasting image.
Around this mythological moment unfold scenes of encounter: bodies resting, watching, touching, and moving through spaces of leisure and athletic exchange. These environments collapse the distance between divine and human worlds, suggesting that the lives of gods, heroes, and mortals unfold within the same architectures of desire, competition, and intimacy.
In ancient Greece many myths circulated visually through pottery rather than exclusively through written narrative. This series draws on that tradition, treating the vase as both image and vessel a surface where myth is preserved through gesture, bodies, and shared memory.
2026, Unglazed stoneware ceramic
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