Persephone Has Crossed the Border is a creative research project exploring how ancient myth, collective memory, and art practice can offer an alternative lexicon for speaking about border crossing, migration, and the idea of home.
Drawing on the Greek myth of Persephone - goddess of the Underworld and of spring growth - the project centres her cyclical movement between worlds. Spending six months with Demeter on Earth and six months with Hades in the Underworld, Persephone inhabits a condition of perpetual crossing: belonging to both realms, yet fully claimed by neither.
Through this mythic framework, the project rethinks borders as lived, relational, and affective spaces.
Developed through the Inverness College Research and Scholarship Scheme (2019–20) and supported by Creative Scotland (2021), the research components of this projects have been presented at the IV International Conference on Memory Studies (Istanbul, November 2019) and the IV International Congress on Visual Studies, GKA (Paris, April 2020). A peer-reviewed article has been published in the International Visual Culture Review in 2020.
