Hi, I'm Ariadne Zitsos, the artist behind Thread Florals. I have always found myself chasing beauty in myriad ways: music, watercolors, design, writing, teaching, and always flowers. It has long been my habit on walks to collect the little pieces of beauty I find along the way and to arrange them once home - a souvenir of the beauty outside to sit with me for a few days before fading back from where it came.
During Covid, we all needed some of that beauty in our lives. I had been working in education and the arts, first as a teacher and then as a curriculum writer, until Covid shut down both of my spaces of work. With three small kids I felt I still needed to contribute to our family budget in some way and I had always worked with flowers on the side, mostly as a hobby. So I decided to grow my hobby into a business and spread light and beauty where I could.
I try to always follow my interest and curiosity, to be always growing, changing, evolving, improving, like the nature I so admire. And in that vein, after three years of putting out floral design work that I loved and was so proud of during a pandemic and the post-pandemic wedding rush, I decided to go back into my first love of education. I keep Thread Florals as a reminder that art and creativity are important outpourings of who we are as humans, and that ones path is not always straight.
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why thread?
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In the ancient Greek myth of Ariadne and Theseus, Ariadne gives Theseus a magic thread to lead him through a labyrinth and kill the Minotaur at the center. This magic thread has become a symbol for logic, thought, and creativity.
I believe that creativity is all about following a thread of a thought and seeing where it leads. I bring this belief to every aspect of my work, and lead others to do the same. I believe in the interconnecedtness of all domains, no subject lives in isolation. Like the labyrinth in the myth, everything is only part of a whole.
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