Liminal Hecate
Who is Hecate? To Greek mythological enthusiasts she is a Titan (pre-Olympian god) as master of the occult – the goddess of poisons, night, and thresholds. Her imagery depicts crossroads; she is a keeper of liminal spaces, nearly always donning three faces and holding a torch or candle to light the way to death’s door. She mediates between the realms of the mortal and the divine, the alive and the dead, the old and the new.
I am particularly drawn to Hecate’s mythology as a mysterious pre-Olympic figure. Her association with death and liminality particularly strikes me – she is both beautiful and terrifying, kind yet stern, known yet transitory. As a lesbian, Hecate’s seemingly incongruous dualities particularly intrigue and inform my artistic practice as someone reinventing my own identity and consistently crossing the threshold of rebirth through identity formation. I am also interested in the physical space of my college campus as a space for this transition as a liminal environment I pass through daily and have made my discovery in similar to the Trivia (three-way street) that Hecate guarded and guided weary souls through.
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Three Fates at the Tri Via, 2023.
Torch for the Dead, 2023.
Pharmakeia, 2023.
Siren Call at the River Styx, 2023.
Crossing the River Styx, 2023.
Threshold, 2023.
Procession of the Dead, 2023.
