Flower Folk

  • Lily Goddess

  • Hibiscus

  • Samian Bloom

  • Water Leaf

  • Ionion Anthurium

  • Dhalia Offering

  • Bathing

  • Orchid Cave

  • Prickly Pear

  • Nuture

  • Gathering

  • Forest Herbs

Flower Folk reimagines the Greek folk traditions I grew up with, not as fixed relics but as living, adaptive forms. In this series, I photograph women in traditional folk clothing and as mythological figures. I superimpose exotic flowers from distant hemispheres across their faces. This deliberate intervention alters the portrait: the rootedness of costume and place becomes unsettled by blooms that could never naturally grow in Greece without the forces of globalization and climate change. The flowers become both mask and marker — at once a disruption and an adornment. They overlay ancestral identity with evidence of a shifting environment, suggesting how cultural memory and ecological precarity are intertwined. These images suggest that our myths and rituals, like our environments, must adapt to survive. Currently part of the Transforming Traditions: Art and Folklore exhibition at the Prescott Gallery, Arizona.