Our 21st century understanding of these ancient ideas regarding sexuality and human relations is obscured by centuries of interpretation through religion, science, and re-presentation by the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and later art movements. Through the Attica Erotica series, I have sought to re-present these ideas as they were manifested in the pottery of the same time period in which they were discussed in the agora, temple and home. By re-interpreting this imagery on eggshells in our times, i.e. manifesting these ideas today, I hope to describe a whole worldview about human relations, sexuality, and our place in the cosmos. Through reflecting on these ideas in this series – we “moderns” can see ourselves in a new way - by showing how similar/different we are today.

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