Re-membering Eden Artworks

An Inquiry into Shame, Death, and Sacred Matter

Introduction

What if the Fall was not punishment, but misinterpretation?
What if decomposition is not shameful, but sacred?

Re-membering Eden proposes that humanity’s exile from paradise was not caused by sin, but by recoil: the traumatic recognition of entropy, mortality, and the body’s participation in the Cycle of Life.
Through symbolic artworks and reflective theory, this project reweaves the fragmented relationship between matter and spirit, shame and grace.

Seed → Fracture → Exile → Denial → Collapse → Re-membering → Benediction
(Hover or click could show the artworks under each phase.)

Artworks

1. Seed (ῲ food to waste) :

The Fruit of Misconception (Partial Knowledge ʘO)

The Fruit of Misconception

The Fruit of Misconception | 2013–2023| Mixed media installation: painting (acrylic and sandpaper on wood), goat skull, handmade iron key, plastic fringe| 90 × 80 cm

Symbolism:

A dissected apple, a goat’s skull, and a key from a burned house: this installation reinterprets the Genesis myth through visceral materials. What if shame began not with sex, but with our misunderstanding of bodily cycles? The sandpapered flesh of the apple becomes a tactile metaphor for ecological grief and sacred misunderstanding

It Questions:

  • What was the real knowledge revealed in Eden?
  • How does the body betray—or illuminate—the sacred?
  • Can ecological grief be composted into mythic healing?
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2. Primal Fracture ¥:

Fundamental Flaw ≠

Fundamental Flaw ≠, 2023, Match More, Chania

The distorted worldview embedded in the foundations of cultures that places growth and advancement disproportionately higher than inclusion and respect for the Whole

Fundamental Flaw | 2023 | The Fundamental Fallacy, 2023

  • Triptych of mixed materials consisting of:
  • A) Two 150x50cm… cabinet sheets in the form of a manuscript page with 4 crosses and 5 overprinted reproductions of works at the edges. The extracts and images, on the left, relate to the Nativity, while, on the right, to the Revelation of John and the Resurrection.
  • B) a composite section in the centre: a 48.5 x 100cm panel and a 48.5 x 60 x 10cm box, on which rests a ceramic vase containing soil and the ready-made caganer figure as Rodin’s thinker,. On the left, the angel figure is a laminated, painted reproduction fixed with copper wire at an angle.

It Questions:

  • What if the “Fall” was not moral failure, but epistemic rupture?
  • Can decomposition be seen as sacred, rather than shameful?
  • Who defines purity—and at what cultural cost?
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3. Exile (|〄| labyrinth of taboos):

Labyrinth of Shadows & Plastic Immortality

Labyrinth of Shadows

  • Labyrinth of Shadows,
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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  • Plastic Immortality | 2022
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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4. Denial (Ꝿ Mind over body & ⧭ Decarnis):
Jonah in the Fish & The Decarnis Cycle

Jonah in the Fish

  • Jonah in the Fish | 2024
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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Iron Shame detail

Menu of Shame Catalog

  • Decarnis Cycle | 2022
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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5. Collapse: Spiral of Fractures:

Apollonian Vision, Contrived Lies, The Jenga We Play, Passengers)

  • Apollonian Vision | 2021
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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  • Contrived Lies
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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Installation of stacked sixty plastic blocks forming a towering column atop a bench and chair. Reminiscent of an oversized Jenga game, the structure stands beyond easy reach. The work highlights the perils of unchecked ambition, competitive risk, and systemic imbalance.

The Jenga we Play

⭜: Unsustainable Ascent

A distorted and destabilizing drive for transcendence, ambition, and elevation that ignores ecological limits.

Real-life Jenga: the Myth of Limitless Ascent:

The sculpture’s form holds both memory and critique. As a child of postwar aspiration and American cinema, I internalized the myth of boundless ascent. But lived experience—especially outside privilege—teaches otherwise. This tower stages the tension between striving and limit: the moment at which drive becomes dead end.

The Jenga We Play, 2023, Assisted ready-made: 30 pieces plastic tube 10x30x6cm, marker writing, base, 290x30x30cm

Symbol Footnotes/Tags

  • ⭜ Unsustainable Ascent: “sky’s the limit” as dangerous myth
  • Precarious equilibrium; collapse is inscribed into the system
  • ↨/₀ Fundamental Flaw: The skewed worldview embedded at the foundations of civilizations that places growth and ascent disproportionately higher than belonging and respecting the Whole – Babel’s error, repeated

It Questions:

  • What do we lose when play becomes unreachable competition?
  • Who benefits from dreams of endless mobility, and who is left behind?
  • When does ambition become pathology?
  • Is collapse always a failure, or is it reality’s reset?

Passengers

6. Re-membering: The Healing Path

Make Amends & Venus Incarnis

  • Make Amends | 2022
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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Venus Incarnis

  • Symbolisms:
    • Venus: “Represents the feminine principle, fertility, and the generative power of nature. Her exaggerated form emphasizes the body’s connection to the earth.”
    • Caganer: “Symbolizes the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth. It challenges taboos surrounding bodily functions and affirms the sacredness of the material.”
    • Egg: “Represents potential, the primordial source of all things, and the interconnectedness of life.”
  • Oceanic feeling |
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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7: Benediction: Meta-Lapsarian Age

Embracing my Rooster, Oceanic Feeling

Embracing My Rooster — A self-portrait in oil, depicting a grounded, full-bodied female figure tenderly holding a rooster. The figure’s feet and lower body are emphasized, reclaiming parts of the body often excluded from classical representation. The work explores themes of reconciliation with the animal self, fertility, and sacred embodiment.

Embracing my Rooster / πετεινοκρατούσα

  • Embracing my Rooster | 2022
  • [Short poetic blurb]
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🧵 Philosophy

The Cycle Reclaimed
(brief excerpt from the Spiral Cosmology to hint at deeper structure)

📖 Download or Read the Full Essay

(Re-membering Eden PDF or linked preview page)

✨ Final Touches

  • Small navigation button: “🌱 About the Artist” → mini bio page.
  • Soft footer with symbols: (⦳) (⭮) (۝) and their tooltips (“Cycle of Life,” “Syntropy,” “Material Divinity”).