Caucasian Dances
Caucasian Dances
ARTIST STATEMENT
My people come from the Caucasus Mountains, where the women's dances are elegant and subtle, featuring expressive movement mostly in the hands, arms and feet. There is a sensation of the dancer floating. I repeated the hands and feet to show the expressive variations of the dance. The dancer could be a bride, shown by her pale veil.
DETAILS + CARE
Large Wrap approximately 135 cm or 53 inches square
Designed by Daud Akhriev using watercolor and gauche, 2017
100% Silk Satin 12mm
Printed in Italy
Dry clean only
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Serithea is brought to you by Melissa Hefferlin and Daud Akhriev.
We met pursuing an education at the historic Russian Academy of Fine Art in Saint Petersburg (the Soviet Union's "Leningrad" at that time) at the end of the Cold War. Melissa hailed from the mountains of Tennessee, Daud from the Caucasus Mountains of Southern Russia. A passion to make art brought us together from disparate parts of the globe, and for thirty years we have been (and continue to be) professional fine artists, dividing our time between Andalusia, Spain and Tennessee, USA. 2016 sent us a hunger to make art wearable.
Lovers of rugs, scarves and textiles of all kinds, Daud's family mourns beloved heirlooms lost in the wars after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Melissa's people include architects, quilters, seamstresses and women who lovingly pass down a pair of foreign earrings, a grandmother's Hermes scarf, a fine pair of brogues.
We, too, want to create heirlooms to be worn against the skin. We hope that your life and the lives of those you love are enriched by Serithea's offerings.
