The Heliades

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Heliades mourn their brother Phaethon until their bodies become poplars and their tears harden into amber. Photographed along the banks of the Po, these trees echo the sisters’ transformation. Still trunks and trembling foliage suggest bodies caught between human gesture and vegetal form. The Heliades explores a landscape where grief takes root, and movement carries the memory of another life.