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'...Eleni
Rivers and Gita Mammen—remind us how mythology and poetry are
interminably linked with the visual arts, and indeed with the trials of
everyday experience. Rivers's preoccupation with botanical forms
explores an elemental concern at the heart of myth: the natural cycle. By
situating herself in relation to the rhythms of nature (germination of seeds,
growth, decay, and fertilisation), Rivers explores the role of the artist in
the cycles which give birth to myth. Mammen's juxtaposition of visual art
and poetry in "Inanna of the Storms" revisits some of the oldest myths
known—those of Mesopotamia and Ancient Sumer—but in doing so,
sheds light on such contemporary concerns as "water shortages and war,
spirituality and love."' (Source: Introduction pp. 3-4)
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