Persephone's Emancipation

Artwork: Mural by GERA1, Persephone’s Emancipation, Eleusis, Greece, 2024

Amazing ground mural by GERA 1(@gera1_) titled Persephone’s Emancipation at a skatepark in the Municipality of Elefsina, Eleusis, Greece. GERA 1 wrote this about the piece:

“With this ground mural at Elefsina’s Arkopolis @skate_p_ark🛹I attempt to highlight the modern physiognomy of this great historical city while glimpsing at its rich and intense past✨

Drawing inspiration from Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s well-known baroque sculpture representing the abduction of Persephone by Pluto, I tried to reinterpret the well-known Greek myth, emphasizing the moment of Persephone’s intense struggle for deliverance and her desire to remain in the upper world of the living. 

My Persephone can be any woman who fights for her freedom and is capable of bringing rebirth and a new joyful reality, as Eleusis’s etymology and myths has always manifested.”