Acherontia Atropos

Acherontia Atropos was conceived on the outskirts of Athens, Hellas at the end of Summer 2002, when two artists combined their talents to work as one..This artistic team inhabits another curving of Time and Space in a dimension that we do not perceive directly, the metaphora of the Black Constellation, the one force that remains hidden, to travel down Dark corridors, confronting the blackest of emotions and expressing human mortality, and our existence in relation to the Universe.Acherontia Atropos creates traditional Art with contemporary ideals, in the knowledge that, one day, all will come to an end.. Nothing is for ever.death's head moth: n. a European hawk moth, 'Acherontia Atropos', having markings resembling a human skull on its upper thorax.Acheron: n.Greek myth. 1.one of the rivers in Hades over which the souls of the dead were ferried by Charon. 2.the underworld or Hades.Atropos: n.Greek myth. the one of the three Fates who severs the thread of life. [Greek, from 'atropos' that may not be turned, from A- + -tropos from 'trepein' to turn].