In some cases, the two goddesses were interchangeable. Given their similarities, some ancient texts closely associated Hemera with Eos, the goddess of the dawn. Yet another claimed Uranus as their only child. According to one version Hemera and Aether bore the Titans Gaia (Earth), Uranus (Sky) and Thalassa (Sea), while another version cited only Thalassa as the child of Hemera and Aether. Sources differ, however, when it comes to their children. In all ancient sources, Hemera was paired with Aether (Light), both her brother and consort. Hesiod described them drawing near and passing one another, one entering a house while the other departed to pass over the earth, the house never holding them both inside. They moved in counterpoint to one another, Nyx retreating from the sky as Hemera appeared. Whether daughter or sister, Hemera was always closely linked with Nyx, their heavenly movements used to explain the cycle of day into night to the ancients. Another version by Hyginus stated that Hemera emerged from Chaos alongside Nyx, making her Hemera’s sister, not mother. The poet Bacchylides, on the other hand, named Nyx as Hemera’s mother, but Chronos-the primordial god of time-as her father. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, the narrative detailing the genealogy of the gods, She was the daughter of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness), two primordial deities born from Chaos, the void or chasm before creation. Three different versions of her family tree exist in ancient writings. She was listed among the first gods, the generations before the Titans and Olympians. This cross-disciplinary cooperation focuses on researching the sensory engagement power of an immaterial force like light and how collaborative participatory arts and design methods can influences our way of living in a variety of contexts, scaling from interiors to urban spaces.”Ĭommissioned for Winter Lights as part of Canary Wharf Group’s public art programme of temporary and permanent visual arts.Hemera was the goddess of day. Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Aether & Hemera is “an interdisciplinary collaboration to research the aesthetic challenges of light and its power to trigger emotions and response, creating a sense of identity or setting a mood. Aether is Claudio Benghi, the media architect Hemera is Gloria Ronchi, the lighting artist. The etymon of the word ‘voyage’ comes from Latin ’viāticum’, which means ’provision for travelling’, and the aim of the artwork is to allow viewers to travel and sail with absolute freedom to all the places they care to imagine.Colourful paper boats’ on the water invites everyone to make a transition from reality to imagination, reliving childhood memories and embracing our freedom blurring the lines between the real and hyper-real, ‘Voyage’ invites the thoughts of the visitors to cross the borders of their imagination.Īether & Hemera are the ancient Greek god and goddess of brighter upper air and daylight. Aether & Hemera’s Voyage is an installation consists of three hundred floating ‘paper boats’, encasing coloured dynamic LED lights in the Middle Dock of Canary Wharf. The aim of the creator’s artistic vision is “to provoke memories, explore aesthetic interactions and to elicit feelings of connective human experiences in a required-to-participate audience.” The installation is designed to be interactive and people can change the colour of the lights via their mobile phone.
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