Thymari is a sculpture made of alabaster and hand-blown glass, rooted from my family history from Spetses. My grandmothers surname, Thymarás, comes from ancestors who harvested and tended wild thyme on the island’s rocky hillsides. Thyme was part of their daily economy, but also part of the land’s identity.

I use alabaster to evoke the pale light and mineral softness of the Aegean landscape, and the glass element, with its warm opaque undertones, references the form which has often been read as feminine, and I allow that, a body shaped by the land.

Thymari is an acknowledgment that heritage is sensed before it is spoken, and carried in memory.

Thymari

Unique Piece

Hand-blown glass and carved alabaster sculpture

This work explores the meeting point between transparency and solidity, fragility and endurance. The glass form emerges from the stone as if shaped by time, holding movement within stillness.

Price: €1,900