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Can you elaborate on how your involvement with groups like the Puzzle group and Plasthra 16 has
influenced your artistic journey?
I like to be part of something promising, and all the projects I have undergone gave me something valuable…. Trying to
solve the riddle with a company is always something that is fortunate and unfortunate… fortunate because you share
your thoughts and unfortunate because you may lose yourself, however losing the self is always something that gives
valuable information to the self… I found, however egocentric I may find myself to be a leader, hence my theater group
Yellow, where I was directing and forming my ideas the way I chose to. Same with painting you are the director, the one
who makes decisions and makes the work make sense.
How do you curate experiences for audiences in your performances to engage them with both the
aesthetic and the socio-political context of your work?
George Kallas said that a work of art should answer to both the content and the style of a work of art. Working with
tradition, and the socio-political context of a past that is great and rich in scenery that you try to place in the present is a
process that brings you face to face with anthropological truths. It is without doubt unheard of that we still protest
against war nowadays. Democratic states abide with diversity and minorities are striving to stand in the picture. We
need to hear the voice inside and test it with external obscurities and truths meaning the society we are in, that leaves a
mark upon each one of us, and therefore defines us and our actions, such as creating art. We are not alone.
In what ways do you see your art as a conversation between the past and the present, and how does that
conversation guide your future projects?
Once you are true to yourself, your art must be also true. One thing leads another, for example, at first I was painting
what was around me, and that is myself my partner, and animals… digging the subject of animals and art, I discovered
Greek and Egyptian Mythology, Being Greek I decided to examine my past and portray it in a more gay and queer
attitude, gay as in happy and not necessarily a sexual orientation. One thing leads to another, you just need to be
patient and work a lot, and the future is shaping before you slowly, like a licker that you take small sips and taste slowly
to ship it to the bottom of your heart.

Ensemble Cry Etouto To Maxairi Edw
Acrylic on canvas, Acrylic on canvas,
50x50cm, 2020 60x60cm, 2020

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