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© Eileen Sedgwick 2008
Text Box: Persephone Persephone emerges from the underworld bringing with her the springtime. Her gown is hand painted cream silk with a design of inter-linked ghostly white and shadowy dark hands which represent the souls of the departed who do not wish to lose their Queen. The bottom of the hem is embellished with sequins and beads to symbolise the rich jewels of Hades. She carries the pomegranate which sealed her fate and will force her to return below ground again in the winter. On her head she wears a garland of narcissus, the flowers she was collecting when she was first abducted. She is a twelfth scale figure and so about 14cm tall, but on the base she stands 20cm tall overall. The base has ferns and grasses and papier-mâché stone steps, and the frame is 10cm square. Persephone is a one-of-a-kind original sculpture made without moulds, and she will never be duplicated.