{"id":5113,"date":"2026-09-13T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:57:47","slug":"mycenae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=5113","title":{"rendered":"Mycenae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Greek mythology, <strong>Mycenae<\/strong> was a water nymph, the offspring of a river god. \u00a0Her name can also be spelled<em> Mycene<\/em> or <em>Mykene<\/em>, and her namesake is the ancient golden city of Mycenae.\u00a0 One origin story suggests the city was created when Perseus lost part of his sword &#8211; the cap (known as myces) fell from the scabbard to the ground.\u00a0 <em>Myces<\/em> is the Greek word for mushroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mycenae<\/strong> was a minor entity in a time of mythology known as the primordial era.&nbsp; It is believed that the universe was emerging from formless chaos.&nbsp; People as such did not exist, more forces and concepts of earth, sky, time and darkness.&nbsp; My <strong>Mycenae<\/strong> is located within the swamp area of the Wildflower Sculpture Park.&nbsp; Her form is created with mycelium, the root like structure of fungus and mushrooms.&nbsp; She appears to have both emerged from the earth and will eventually be subsumed by it again.&nbsp; The inevitable, ongoing states of decay being a welcome part of the creative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mycenae<\/strong>, 2026, Hemp, mycelium, cotton, fiberglass, paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Installed at Wildflower Sculpture Park Saturday September 12, 2026.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excited to see how she evolves over the coming months, transitioning from Summer to Winter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_7895-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Greek mythology, Mycenae was a water nymph, the offspring of a river god. \u00a0Her name can also be spelled Mycene or Mykene, and her namesake is the ancient golden city of Mycenae.\u00a0 One origin story suggests the city was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/?p=5113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaiastudio.org\/wonderwomen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}