Weight (Limits of Excavation) draws inspiration from the ancient Minoan settlement and Bronze Age civilization of Akrotiri, profoundly marked by a volcanic eruption around 1600 BCE. The piece draws life where sunlight meets the cream-colored earth, carrying echoes of the past in the air—a witness to the labor, heat, and sweat of everyday life. My fingerprints trace the living preserved in volcanic ash, touching these enduring traces found at Akrotiri: fragmented bodies and partial faces immortalized in frescoes, layers of thick pumice, foundations embedded in the landscape, roofs of corrugated sheeting, and the clothing of a saffron gatherer. It remembers the moments broken under the weight of ash and time. This rupture makes our connection to the past partial, yet it still calls to us, bridging history and the present through its (broken) traces.

Clay Echoes: Unearthing Hidden Narratives | Biennale of Contemporary Keramics | Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Santorini, Greece | 2024 | Under the patronage of H.E. The President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou and organized by Big Blue Dot

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