Bust of Thalia: The Foundation of Western Civilization

Washington, DC

Bust of Thalia: The Foundation of Western Civilization

Installed in the lobby of the Embassy of Greece in Washington, DC, the first venue of the Hellenic Heads exhibition in 2022.

Thalia, muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, is modeled on the sculptor’s mother as a young woman, from photographs taken around 1950. In the Hellenic Heads cycle she stands for Classical Greece.