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‘’Through the study of ancient authors of Greek Drama, Shakespeare, and other modern playwrights such as
Becket I absorb the form and axis of the plays transforming them into painting sculpture and direction.
Through tradition and culture, I find ways to communicate my art, reaching out to the public to grasp the
play and verse and icon to find its space in the sociopolitical spectrum. I swim in a sea of colors and form
and margin to communicate my statement that all art is necessary for the evolution of mankind. I find that
in the sphere of creation, life becomes art and art becomes life, and I fulfill my purpose to create and shape
my vision of life in the now, carrying the prophets of the past to navigate into the future, in a quantum
physics manner of being... where all is possible and everything is interconnected.’’

Love Pixel Orgasm
Acrylic on canvas, Acrylic on canvas,
180x210cm, 2019 190x230cm, 2019

Can you describe how your exploration of Greek Drama influences your painting and theatrical
performances?
I have been studying Ancient Greek Drama since 1999 when I entered the Athens School of Fine Arts. I was fascinated by
the rhythm and choice of words, along with the case of the tragic hero that awaits Katharsis, When I started painting in
2015 I did a series of large-scale portraits that I call Heroes. So both my paintings and my texts that I later presented as
theatrical performances with my theatre group Yellow had a taste of the glory and symbolism of Ancient Greek Drama.
All my texts ended with a dramatic form of exit and all of the heroes would experience death as an inevitable stance of
life, after experiencing pathos and eros. The dramatic figure is always more appealing and torture has a way with the
arts. I only write when I am depressed, I paint in whatever state I am in. That is my Katharsis.
Your work blurs the lines between different mediums. How do you approach the integration of painting,
performance, and interactivity in your practice?
I let myself dive into a sea of opportunities and throughout my career I have allowed myself to explore different
mediums, After my school Years I was thrilled with performance and acting only to discover that I am a backstage
person, and I am still in love with the stage I was caught up with directing my writings and texts. I explore directing as if
it was a blank canvas, the human body was my brushes, and the stage my canvas. Until one day I woke up in the
summer of 2015 starving for painting, all this experience with the theater drove me to a clear idea of what exactly I
wanted to paint and how the content and the form were ripe in my head and heart and since then I have been painting
on an autobiographical axis, and lately, I have managed to move from the narcissistic egocentric point of view, exploring
myths and personas – heroes from the Greek drama and mythology.

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