When Myth Becomes Matter: The Publication of Legends – The Code

A collaboration with Sfumato Art Creatives

There are moments in an artistic journey when a body of work shifts from being a living process to becoming a tangible document. The publication of Legends – The Code marks such a transition.

Originally conceived as a visual and poetic exploration of mythological women, the series sought to re-examine ancient narratives not as distant historical artifacts, but as living psychological and cultural structures. Figures such as Callisto, Medusa, Persephone, Hippolyta, and Melissa were approached as symbolic architectures — embodiments of resilience, transformation, and evolving feminine agency.

The decision to gather the series into book form was not merely archival. It was structural. A book creates rhythm. It establishes sequence. It allows image and text to unfold in deliberate continuity. In this format, the dialogue between visual composition and poetic reflection gains spatial and temporal dimension.

Through collaboration with Sfumato Art Creatives, the project found its printed articulation. Essays, curatorial reflections, and poetic fragments now coexist within a unified framework — one that bridges mythology with contemporary psychological and cultural realities.

To create, I have often written, is to remember what the soul has never forgotten. In this publication, that remembering takes material form. Paper becomes witness. Ink becomes continuity.

The book does not conclude the series; it reframes it. It invites the reader to move slowly, to decode symbols, and to consider myth not as nostalgia, but as a living mirror.

In a fragmented era, perhaps this is what art can still offer: coherence — a bridge between inheritance and becoming.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer

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