The Virtuous Spiral installation consists of over a hundred handcrafted ceramic vessels arranged in a spiral formation, evoking the enigmatic Phaistos Disc and serving as a morphological and conceptual analogue. The vessels, designed by the artist and crafted by a community of artisans in Thrapsano, Crete—a place with a long-standing tradition in ceramic art—transcend their utilitarian function to become symbolic markers of humanity’s eternal journey through time.
From storing goods to burial rituals, ceramic objects narrate timeless episodes of human history, capturing the multiplicity of experience and memory. The materiality and texture of their surfaces are designed to reflect both the natural elements of the environment and the otherworldly, poetic glow of the moon.
Themes such as memory, migration, personal and collective evolution, as well as the interplay between movement, transformation, and return, form the foundational axes of the installation. The work remains open to multiple interpretations and continuously redefines itself in the viewer’s gaze.
Virtuous Spiral is conceived as a walkable, site-specific installation that embodies the symbolic cyclicality of existence and creative evolution. Through its arrangement, it invites the viewer on an experiential journey of introspection within a spatial “labyrinth” that mirrors the layers and fluctuations of human consciousness.
