Hymn to Helios (2022)

The Homeric Hymns draw a recurring distinction between "death-less" gods and "death-prone" mortals. This hymn offers a magnificent personification of the sun "riding his chariot" across the sky each day. His daily journey is constant and eternal, undisturbed by the comparative trivialities of mortal life, reminding us of the scale of the universe that dwarfs our existence and marks the limited days we are witness to its splendor. The hymn's poetic expression of our mortality acquires a new dimension when viewed through a 21st-century lens, now knowing our capacity to distort the cycles of nature that facilitate human life.