"The Mythology Series" is a three-part collaborative body of work created by ritual performance artist Elizabeth Yochim and poet–photographer Don Norman, reimagining ancient myths as living, embodied encounters. Through site-specific performance, poetic text, and photographic image, the series approaches mythology not as distant allegory, but as an active language for grief, desire, initiation, and transformation in contemporary life.
Each work centers the feminine not as object or muse, but as initiator—the one who steps forward, crosses thresholds, and chooses descent, encounter, or emergence. The performances unfold in elemental landscapes—desert, sea, stone—where body, myth, and terrain enter into dialogue. What remains are images and texts that feel less like documentation and more like relics of a ritual that continues to work on the viewer.