The work Pallas Athena speaks winged word to Diomedes (Iliad V) is woven manually on a digital Jacquard loom and is based on the epic poem The Iliad. In both The Iliad and the Odyssey the phrase "to bring or speak winged words" is used when one character speaks to another. Aesthetically, the work draws on fundamental ornamental patterns appropriated from Greek vase art from the geometric period (900–700 BCE). The work plays on how a sound, or a voice, is also a wave and more generally the boundary between ornament and representation is explored. The choice of colors refer visually to the more kitschy souvenir art that can found in every Greek tourist destination. In a broader sense, the work can be seen as an elaboration of, and commentary to, the cyclical self-absorption of 'Western' culture. “she drew near to his side and spake to him winged words : Nay more, from veiling mist I purge thine eyes That thou may'st well discern both god and man.” ILIAD V