The town of Glastonbury, near where designer Rhiannon Davies grew up, has long inspired Epona. Its layers of history, Christian devotion, and mythology create a palimpsest where past and present coexist. The town becomes a lens to explore the accumulation of ritual

and memory. In this collection, Davies focuses on the Chalice Well, imagining its waters as a portal: pulled into the Victorian era in which the well was designed, a time when industry and transport were powered by horses. This reinforces the enduring presence of the equestrian theme throughout Davies’ practice. The Chalice Well is steeped in legend: it is said to be where Joseph of Arimathea placed his staff, marking the site as a sacred threshold between the earthly and the mystical. Davies reflects: “If my companions and I were to take a trip to the well and tumble in, understood as a portal between temporalities, what garments might we emerge wearing? For the female body, for ourselves, what forms might be conjured through this

passage across time, imbued with a spectral glamour?”