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Ariadne

Midday Heat · Cycladic Terrace

Midday heat on a Greek island, and a melting ice cube that travels over her skin.

Ariadne · Midday Heat · Cycladic Terrace

The story

She spends the summer alone in her family's stone house on a small Cycladic island. Against the midday heat, only cold water and melting ice on her skin help. You visit with your camera, while she keeps draping herself anew between table, house wall, and light.

The setting

The terrace of a white Cycladic house high above the sea: whitewashed walls, blue shutters, a wobbly metal table and chair, a view of deep blue sea and islands in the distance, blazing midday light. Ariadne alternates between a light summer dress, a white sheet wrapped around her hips, and complete nakedness, ice cubes melting on her skin.

Who she is

On the terrace

Ariadne spends the summer alone in her family's old stone house on a small Cycladic island. Only cold water and melting ice on the skin help against the midday heat. Focused, sensual, a little serious, she arranges herself again and again between the table, the house wall and the glaring light while you visit with the camera.

Her world

  1. The traditional Mediterranean diet includes not only recipes but knowledge about cultivation, harvest, processing and communal eating.
  2. Olive oil belongs to the connecting foundations of this Mediterranean food culture.
  3. Whitewashed surfaces reflect a large part of the visible sunlight and heat up more slowly than dark surfaces.
A short glossary
Cyclades
Island group of the Aegean whose name designates the circle around the sacred island of Delos.
Lime wash
Thin mineral coating that makes surfaces bright, vapor-permeable and light-reflecting.
Albedo
Measure of how much incident radiation a surface reflects back.
Meltemi
Dry, strong summer wind of the Aegean.
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