Aetas

Resting quietly on the seabed off the coast of Alonissos, Aetas — Latin for “Era” — is a sculptural meditation on time, memory, and the fragile bond between humans and the sea. The piece evokes the partially buried face of Staphylus, son of Dionysus
and bearer of wine-making to the island. Emerging from the sand, the face is adorned with grape clusters, fragments of glass bottles, and remnants of marine debris. It suggests a figure resurfacing from a longforgotten past, suspended between myth and modernity. Inspired by Alonissos’s deep connection to the sea and its mythological
richness, the work merges classical iconography with contemporary waste. The embedded materials — symbols of both abundance and pollution — blur the line between relic and refuse. The result is a monument that questions what we discard and what we remember. Aetas becomes part of Alonissos’s underwater landscape, merging nature, myth, and memory in a space of reflection—where art echoes ecological urgency and timeless transformation. The ocean holds both our stories and our waste. Aetas reminds us that even what is lost or discarded can hold the seeds of renewal.