Apollonia Project

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I am out with lanterns
looking for myself
Emily Dickinson

”When Leto gave birth to you,
the commanding one, King Apollo,
While her dainty arm
wrapped tightly around the palm,
Of all immortals fairest,
on the rounded shore,
Then Delos was filled all around,
the endless plain,
Full of ambrosial fragrance,
the huge earth laughed,
And loudly rejoiced the
sea’s gray waves in the bottom.”

Theognis von Megara,
Trinklieder, in: translated by Mörike,
1804-1875, Lyrik, 34

Amidst the driftwood and debris,
They found themselves on bended knee,
For there, before their very eyes,
Stood Apollonia, goddess wise.
ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

The clouds drift lazily o’erhead,
As the sea beats against the shore,
For within the caverns deep and old,
The whispers of Apollonia are told.
ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

Oh Apollonia, Goddess of light,
Thy beauty is beyond compare,
With ravishing blue eyes delight,
And grace that fills the very air.

ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

Many prophecies, through ages past,
Were not fulfilled, they did not last,
The glory of Apollonia, once bright,
Now fades like temples in the light.

ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

Grave Naiskos of Apollonia, 100 B.C.

A young girl stands within a naiskos or shallow three-sided structure on this Athenian grave monument. The inscription at the top identifies her as Apollonia, the daughter of Aristandros and Thebageneia. […]

Apollonia holds a pomegranate and reaches up to stroke a dove perched on a tall pillar. The pomegranate had a long history as funerary symbol for the ancient Greeks. In mythology, after being kidnapped by Hades, Persephone had to remain in the underworld for part of the year because she had consumed a pomegranate seed. Birds frequently appear […] with a deeper symbolic meaning related to the correlation of the soul with a bird in Greek thought.

Getty Villa, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Who is Apollonia

Apollo is one of the oldest gods of Greek mythology. God of light, divination and the arts.

I see this examination as an archetypal archive that is representative to my own history and also to the present with this faded mythology.

In search of Apollonia I work with my own photographs, found photographic and artificially created material.

© Karin Apollonia Müller

I am out with lanterns
looking for myself

Emily Dickinson

”When Leto gave birth to you,
the commanding one, King Apollo,
While her dainty arm
wrapped tightly around the palm,
Of all immortals fairest,
on the rounded shore,
Then Delos was filled all around,
the endless plain,
Full of ambrosial fragrance,
the huge earth laughed,
And loudly rejoiced the
sea’s gray waves in the bottom.”

Theognis von Megara,
Trinklieder, in: translated by
Mörike,1804-1875, Lyrik, 34

The clouds drift lazily o’erhead,
As the sea beats against the shore,
For within the caverns deep and old,
The whispers of Apollonia are told.

ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

Amidst the driftwood and debris,
They found themselves on bended knee,
For there, before their very eyes,
Stood Apollonia, goddess wise.

ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

Oh Apollonia, Goddess of light,
Thy beauty is beyond compare,
With ravishing blue eyes delight,
And grace that fills the very air.

ChatGPT, 2023, 01

Many prophecies, through ages past,
Were not fulfilled, they did not last,
The glory of Apollonia, once bright,
Now fades like temples in the light.

ChatGPT, Jan, 2023

Grave Naiskos of Apollonia, 100 B.C.

A young girl stands within a naiskos or shallow three-sided structure on this Athenian grave monument. The inscription at the top identifies her as Apollonia, the daughter of Aristandros and Thebageneia. […]

Apollonia holds a pomegranate and reaches up to stroke a dove perched on a tall pillar. The pomegranate had a long history as funerary symbol for the ancient Greeks. In mythology, after being kidnapped by Hades, Persephone had to remain in the underworld for part of the year because she had consumed a pomegranate seed. Birds frequently appear […] with a deeper symbolic meaning related to the correlation of the soul with a bird in Greek thought.

Getty Villa, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Who is Apollonia

Apollo is one of the oldest gods of Greek mythology. God of light, divination and the arts.

I see this examination as an archetypal archive that is representative to my own history and also to the present with this faded mythology.

In search of Apollonia I work with my own photographs, found photographic and artificially created material.

© Karin Apollonia Müller