THRACE AND ADAMANT

TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING. LIGHTWEIGH, BREATHABLE WITH THE RIGHT AMOUT OF DRAPE. OFF-ROAD OR ON THE CONCRETE THIS IS NO ORDINARY LONG SLEEVE. 3D SCREEN PRINT LOGO. ALL OVER PRINT, ONE OF A KIND.

WHY THRACE AND ADAMANT?

THE GREEKS, A MIGHTY AND PERCIPIENT CIVILIZATION THAT FLOURISHED AND DEMISED IN THE MID EAST AND AEGEAN SEA. NOW MODERN DAY TURKEY, ALBANIA, MACEDONIA, GREECE AND BULGARIA. SUBSTRATUM OF MODERN WESTERN SOCIETIES. THEIR MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY WAS NOT ONLY OF EXCEPTIONAL LURE BUT ALSO OF CONSIDERABLE INSIGHT INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION. 

EVERY PIECE DESIGNED AT TIMELESS CORP. IS IMBUED WITH MEANING AND PURPOSE. THIS PIECE IS A FOREMOST EXAMPLAR. 

APHRODITE, THE GODDESS OF LUST AND BEAUTY WAS LEGITIMATELY WEDLOCKED TO HEPHAISTOS THE GOD OF CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY. BUT HER PASSION BELONGED TO THE GOD OF WAR, ARES. NOT EVEN THE FEARED GOD OF WAR WAS WILLING TO UNDERMINE HEPHAISTOS OPENLY SO HE WOULD LYE WITH APHRODITE ONLY IN THE ABSENCE OF HER HUSBAND. THEIR  PLACE OF CHOICE WAS THE MARRIAGE BED SHE SHARED WITH HEPHAISTOS, IN HIS HOME IN THRACE. DURING ONE OF THEIR ENCOUNTERS HELIOS THE GOD OF THE SUN, RIDING IN HIS CHARIOT WITNESSED THE EPISODE AND MADE HEPHAISTOS AWARE OF THE EVENT. HEPHAISTOS INSULTED DEVISED A PLAN, AND CREATED AN INVISIBLE NET OF ADAMANT, A MATERIAL SO STRONG, NOT EVEN THE GODS COULD BREAK IT. AS THE LOVERS WERE TAKING THEIR DELIGHT THE NET DESCENDED ON THEM FREEZING THEM IN THE ACT. SO THE GREAT GOD WENT FORTH AND EXPOSED THEM BEFORE ZEUS AND THE OTHER OLYMPIANS DECLARING:

"I DOUBT THEIR DESIRE TO REST THERE LONGER, FOND AS THEY ARE. THEY WILL SOON UNWISH THEIR POSTURE THERE; BUT MY CUNNING CHAINS SHALL HOLD THEM BOTH FAST TILL HER FATHER ZEUS HAS GIVEN ME BACK ALL THE BETROTHAL GIFTS I BESTOWED ON HIM FOR HIS WANTON DAUGHTER; BEAUTY SHE HAS, BUT NO SENSE OF SHAME."

THIS PIECE IS A STUDY OF THE HUMAN CONDITION, DESIRE, PASSION, DELIGHT, FAULTS. THINGS WE CANNOT ESCAPE AS LONG AS WE ARE FLESH AND BLOOD. 

MADE IN MICHOACAN 

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