After speaking with James about my current project, he made me realize that I should try to go bigger and more interesting rather than trying to fit everything onto one ‘tableau’, he was saying maybe doing time based shots, as in images of different objects over time, so for Poseidon, possible an ice sculpture melting over a few hours, or for Aphrodite a rose slowly dying.
At first I was sort of against this idea of seeing things almost dissolve through time as the Greek gods are known for being immortals, but then I realized that it really does signify the fact that Greek mythology is all around us but maybe not as common as it would have been back in the ancient Greek times. In other words, even if a rose slowly goes bad, it does not mean there are no more roses left, as soon as we see another we may think of the same concept, and they are always around if you wanted one. So this, would show that even though Aphrodite would at one point have been a lot more present, it does not mean that even if the memory of her has slowly become less common among different cultures and people, that she is not still around today. The same goes for Poseidon and if I was to use an ice sculpture.
Speaking to James, he made me realize that, as I would like for people to go back and research into this topic more to maybe learn about Greek culture (I have notices that I am very interested in helping people educate themselves on different topics such as mental health and people’s cultures and I have learnt a lot about this myself in the past few years) I would need some sort of trigger within my images to make people want to go back and research, so I believe that using a visualizing pleasing aesthetic and objects that I believe connect with Greek Mythology will hopefully attract people into going and researching into the topic more.