04/21/2022
🐚 The Circe Collection 🐚
A minor deity and enchantress featured in The Odyssey. She has been represented in a myriad of ways, most unflattering, but is experiencing a revival lately. When Odysseus and his men come to her island she turns his men into pigs, Odysseus convinces her to change them back. In Ancient Greece, that makes her a villain, to me if a bunch of sailors came into my house I would also turn them into an animal. She is well loved because of her use of magic and her knowledge of herbs and animals. Odysseus eventually scorns her leaves her with two children and goes back to his wife. And you may be thinking, wow, that's a terrible ending but she does get her own form of revenge when she sleeps with his son from his first wife. In this collection I feature sea glass, sand, and small shells to show her representation as a sea witch and the island that she lived on. In my mind orange is associated with her. Orange is also a color of vitality and I think that she is a very lively and complicated individual that could hold orange as their color.
