The photo shows a figurative biomorphic sculpture called Aphrodite in bright blue with gold
accents, resembling an intricately shaped mushroom, not found in nature.
The name Holy Mushrooms refers to the Greek myth of the origin of the world, to the story of
how reality was created from the imagination of the Creator God. As the ancient Greek Goddess
of the Earth, Gaia, being the first generation of Chaos, created all life in the world.
"Gaia, first of all, gave birth to the starry Sky equal in breadth to herself - Uranus, so that she
would exactly cover it everywhere and serve as a strong dwelling for the blessed Gods."
Uranus was chosen by Gaia as her husband, endowed with inexhaustible productive power and
"the first to rule the whole world." Uranus was afraid to die from one of his children-titans and
returned them back to the bowels of the earth. Therefore, Gaia, exhausted from the burden,
persuaded Kronos, the last born, to castrate Uranus.
Kronos threw the genitals of his father into the sea. When the reproductive organ of Uranus fell
into the depths of the sea, "white foam" began to form, from which the goddess of love
Aphrodite was born.
Thus, their own material interpretation of the main characters of the myth (Uranus, Kronos and
Aphrodite) appeared in the form of bizarre mushrooms, giving rise to moral and aesthetic
questions about how good and evil could become both beautiful and terrible.
The work is printed on high-quality mother-of-pearl photographic paper using the technique of
plasticization under gloss acrylic glass (3 mm).
