Ariadna's Thread

“Ariadna’s Thread” (El hilo de Ariadna) is a project in process that talks about the supports that hold us throughout life and help us to move forward. The project is structured by the Greek mythological figure of Ariadna, spinning the photographs from the spindle that she gave to Theseus so as not to get lost in the labyrinth of Crete. Taking advantage of the fireproof capacity of myths to update themselves, in this project, Ariadna is the ageless woman, recovered to speak metaphorically of vital stages, supports, transformation and rebirth through the archetypes of the labyrinth, the thread, the dream and the sea.

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Intrinsic to the labyrinth is the possibility of getting lost and dying, getting into it is nothing but a vital challenge. The wisdom that Ariadna represents to return to the light after the darkness of the unknown, is drawn in this project from images connected with a thread that tenses and directs the hand that holds it. All kinds of support are detailed in this way throughout our biography, which guide and sustain us through constant changes, and that illuminate a chaotic amalgam that forms its own order. In the words of Santarcangeli (1984) the thread symbol

Ariadna’s dream -one of the project's cores- is a “dream of transformation”, which explained by Hernández de la Fuente Both in the legend and in this project, the dream is directly linked to the sea, to the island of Naxos where Ariadna fell asleep and whose waters witnessed the resurgence of her conscience. Fuente,2017.