Asphodel - Spellbound

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Asphodel is a light, minty-sage green semisolid colourway. I was inspired by the Asphodel Meadows, a section of the ancient Greek underworld where the majority of ordinary souls ar e sent to live after death. Many ancient Greek poets and Homeric commentators understand the adjective asphodelòs to mean "flowery", "fragrant", or "fertile". According to others, the unattractive plant was chosen by the Greeks because of its ghostly gray colour, which is appropriate to the shadowy atmosphere of the underworld. A different proposal explains the name of the land as "field of ashes", basing it on sphodelos or spodelos, an alternative version of the name that could be related to "σποδός", spodós ("ashes", "embers"). Show more