Edith Simonnet, an award-winning French sculptor and painter, lets 'beauty impose its grammar' through her art. Her artistic principles align with those of Homer, as she considers manual labor a moment of grace, wherein a deity is at work. Simonnet describes herself as a 'craftsman of beauty, a potter or poet, and a tailor of images'. Her subjects made of earth, oil, and ink are transformed into plaster and bronze.