On June 21st SoHo Salon Series, Hudson Cutler and Legions of Insomniacs presented Persephone: Light and Shadow, a celebration of the summer solstice. The Franklin Street loft was transformed into a bucolic garden wonderland featuring art by Park Sui and Kimkim. --- Over the centuries, many different peoples have honored the summer solstice. The Persephone myth comes to us from the ancient Greeks. Persephone’s abduction by Hades and the eventual compromise which allows her to leave for six months was used to explain the changing of the seasons.