NOSTOS, 2024



The Greek word NOSTOS means ‚home‘ or ‚return‘. The term nostalgia, which refers to the yearning to look back on the past, also has its origins in this word. In Greek mythology, Orpheus descends into the underworld in despair over Eurydice’s death in an attempt to bring her back from the dead. However, he fails and loses her a second and final time. Like Orpheus, we tend to revisit our own underworld of memories repeatedly throughout our lives, often accompanied by questions of ‘why’ and ‘what if’. NOSTOS uses associative images to tell a story about the past, loss, and our unalterable memories of it.

NOSTOS
Self-published
Design Paula Teichmann
Limited edition of 75 copies
Hardcover
20,8 x 26,33 cm
44 Pages
25,00 EUR + shipping
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He even entered the jaws of Taenarus, the high gates
of Dis, and the grove dim with dark fear, and came to the spirits, and their dread king, and hearts that do not know how to soften at human prayer.
The insubstantial shadows, and the phantoms of those without light, came from the lowest depths of Erebus, startled by his song, as many as the thousand birds that hide among the leaves, when Vesper, or wintry rain, drives them from the hills.