Aea takes its name from Aeaea, Circe's mythical island. Aeaea was imagined as a secluded world of its own, surrounded by sea and wilderness, where Circe lived among herbs and animals, away from the rules and rhythms of ordinary life. Those who arrived on her island entered a different realm, and rarely left unchanged. House of Aea, like this mythology, is the idea of an island within an island, a temporary world shaped by nature, ritual, shared meals, and time lived differently.