‘Persephone holding a pomegranate seed’ was made for Stein’s solo exhibition ‘Wet Room’ at the De le Warr pavilion in 2022. The work is a hand painted ceramic tile piece, which speaks to mythic tableau. The figure refers to an unrealised sculpture by artist Frank Dobson, which was proposed to stand outside the De le Warr pavilion staring out at the sea. In Stein’s interpretation of Persephone, she depicts her with ‘the attitude she should have’ to her mythic experience of being abducted, dragged into the underworld and then becoming the goddess of fertility and rebirth. Here, she is a sassy and rightfully angry young woman.