

''Ευπρέπεια. Το σύνθημα για να χαλιναγωγείς οποιαδήποτε
απόκλιση από την πεπατημένη...'' —Anne Enright


''I came to understand that many tasks I previously believed I had time for, I now had to complete promptly, or they would remain undone.'' —Kazuo Ishiguro


''Unrestrained
the light enters the chambers,
for the walls are not white.'' —M. S.


''The poor words that languish in everyday life, the insignificant words, I love so! From my feasts I give them colours, they smile and slowly become happy.'' —Rainer Maria Rilke


''He built a house without an interior, not because he forgot,
but because he wants it with a door that leads to heaven.'' —M. S.


''Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh.''
—T. S. Eliot


''Don't climb so high, crazy thought, that the one who climbs higher falls deeper.'' —Rosalia de Castro


''but your heart’s anguish didn’t sob but turned into a meaning given to the world by the star filled sky.'' —Giorgos Seferis


''The worst thing is that facts are there waiting
for you to find them.'' —Carlos Maria Dominguez


''The ospreys and seagulls say that the sea is happy, shattering at last the breakwater on which it bursts and spills into the streets.'' —Pascal Quignard


''Behind every mirror...
...a nest of silences
that never left.'' —F. G. Lorca


''The present is not a potential past.
It's a moment of choice and action.''
—Simon de Beauvoir


''A journey of a thousand kilometers begins with a step.''
—Lao Che


''The man whom hope tirelessly drags him along,
eternally seeking rest with a madman's run.''
—Charles Baudelaire


''Because no human being feels any other joy
other than what is offered by the feeling
of being alive'' —Pascal Quignard


''I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt'' —Rene Descartes


''Takes a little boat
and reaches oceans''
—Odysseas Elytis


''I barely managed and exchanged a
warm, it's true, kiss with the sun.''
—Nikiforos Vrettakos


''To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.''
—Frances Hodgson Burnett, "The Secret Garden"


''And these are wishes: gentle dialogues.
Of the poor hours with eternity.''
—Rainer Maria Rilke


'What face is this least bright and brightest
And the pulse in the hand, less strong and stronger
Loaned or borrowed?'' —T. S. Eliot


Can you choose which piece of courage to take?


''The revolutionaries are anxious for the future, the lovers for the past, the poets have shouldered both.''
—Tasos Livaditis


When 'O' is a capital letter ...


''But what are our souls looking for when they travel?''
—Giorgos Seferis


''If one insists too strictly on his principles,
in the end he will see almost no one''
—Agatha Christie


''Hands clasped, weighing nothing''
—Paul Elyard


''also spring is unprepared,
every step she takes she stops, she looks confused and silent''
—Giannis Ritsos


''You can cut all the flowers,
but you can not stop Spring from coming.''
—Pablo Neruda




''Low sky full of stars,
but not like the one who knows you.''
—Nikos Kavadias


''Many journeys continue for a long time after the movement in time and space has stopped.''
—John Steinbeck


how is the cost paid back?


''Power can not be united with justice by compromise, because justice is steadfast, it can not be compromised. If he sacrifices a part of it, it ceases to be justice. While power, if it sacrifices a part of it, does not cease to be power.'' —Michael D. Stasinopoulos


''The journey, like love, expresses an attempt to turn the dream into reality.''
—Alain de Botton


''our slightest desire, although unique as a chord, encompasses the fundamental notes on the basis of which our life is built''
—Marcel Proust




''A man seems to me less 'sensitive' the more he displays and uses his emotion.''
—Paul Valery


''No one else could ever be admitted here.
The gate was made only for you...''
—Franz Kafka


''...or the sea, I know. The sky, I suspect.
About my green garden, don't ask me.''
—Nikiforos Vrettakos


''...even if it is impossible to see the sea in its entirety, it is just an idea, like love, about which you can say a lot of things without having an accurate picture of it'' —Bodo Kirchhoff


''And then get bigger, get bigger, my soul,
and be content in life''
—Reiner Maria Rilke


''favorite moment I see you in this curtain of lost fog, where I will have no choice but to step on these long moving doorsteps and live until a door opens and closes'' —Samuel Beckett


''What can you do to be someone else? Impossible. 'You should no longer be nobody, to forget about yourself for someone, even for once.'' —Albert Camus


''Alas if we betray the sea.
Because she has ways to swallow us.''
—Dinos Christianopoulos


Let's prove our will for the protection of the Amvrakikos dolphins
- Stay at least 50 meters away from the dolphins.
- Move carefully away from the dolphins, if you notice any signs of annoyance (such as a sudden change in behaviour).
- Place the motor in neutral gear when you are close to dolphins.
- Do not feed, touch or swim with wild dolphins.
Source: the Ionian Dolphin Project, with goal the conduction of research about dolphins in the Amvrakikos Gulf and the Ionian Sea: http://ioniandolphinproject.org


''The heart first asks for joy. Then to avoid grief.
And then those little painkillers. That deceive pain.''
—Emily Dickinson


''He wanted to talk to him like people never talk to each other, he wanted to say and hear things that no one ever says or hears.'' —Thomas Wolfe


''Life is a mixed or alternative weave
of dullness and poetry.''
—Edgar Moren


''In a shallow sigh of yours
sank a steamer''
—Kiki Dimoula


''It was as if she was wearing someone else's coat, a coat the same as hers - exactly the same, down to the label and the number - but it wasn't her coat, she knew it wasn't. It just looked like it.'' —Ann Enright


''«A great sage went to stay in an ugly house.» Such things happen. «A great spirit settled in an evil man.» And things like that can happen.'' —Daniel Harms


''...his aim was not to determine his fate by an ignorant world full of hatred and hostile intentions but...
by his own will'' —Philip Roth


''It's Sunday in me too...''
—Bernardo Soares


''the word is a small crack in the silence''
—Giuseppe Ungaretti


''There are no clear distinctions between what is real and what is not, nor what is true and what is not." It does not have to be either true or false. It could be both.'' —Harold Pinter


...in the wild winds...


''And the people in the room had grown up. They all remained like children despite their absurdly gray hair and drooping skin under their familiar eyes.'' —Anne Enright


''Ah life, a handshake with infinity
before we lose you forever'' —Tasos Livaditis


''I do not have a single certainty that I did not form through doubt, anxiety, sweat, painful experience'' —Louis Aragon


Amvrakikos Gulf
This is an extensive wetlands system of international importance, protected by the Ramsar Convention since 1972. Included in the "Nature 2000" network, it consists of brackish lagoons, sandy lagoons, salt marshes, reeds, wet meadows, mudflats and other ecosystems.
More than 254 bird species have been recorded in the area: 78 species are to be found throughout the year.
In total, 126 bird species are listed as endangered and protected in the EU, while 6 species are considered endangered on a global level.


''... I once thought that gratitude was a heavy burden.
Now I know it's giving wings to the heart.'' —Oscar Wilde


''I would like to write a poem that when I read it aloud, nothing but the silence will be heard. The beauty of perfection is not visible. Only what escapes perfection is visible.'' —Hugo Mujica


''Perhaps the eyes [...] had told me that I was no longer shipwrecked and alone, and I bent as if out of tenderness,
I, who was stoned by the pain'' —Kostas Karyotakis


''To live, there is no happiness in this. But to be, this is happiness. It is: to transform into a fountain, into a stone tank in which the universe descends like lukewarm rain'' —Milan Kundera (Homage to Panos Charalambous)


''Are not most people usually, frustrated with their roots, not withering in their chains with tacit despair?'' —John Banville


''And when I caught myself crying for no apparent reason,
it was that I had seen something unintentionally'' —Samuel Beckett


''...I peeked longingly through the fog of the absolutely real to discern the imaginary...'' —John Banville


''...and with a group oooop they took off
like a bat coming out of the abyss...'' —Thomas Pinson


''My own «distorted faces»
testify that here, as elsewhere,
immortality does not exist'' —Jean-Paul Didierloran


How do we distinguish something approaching or moving away?


''A Dream? Probably the feeling that the days were passing by
without us realizing it, without offering
a grip to us that would allow us to grab them'' —Patrick Montiano


''Once upon a time the river flowed unrealistically like
an unexpected gliding moonlight
over noon'' —William Faulkner




''Perhaps nothing gives more the impression of reality on what is outside of us, than the change of position, in relation to us, of a person even insignificant, before we know it, and after'' —Marcel Proust


''Perhaps Everything that exists, it exists because something else exists.
Nothing is, everything coexists: maybe that's okay'' —Bernardo Soares


''It seemed to her that the world had just stopped moving and that no one from now on would grow old or die'' —Albert Camus


Bookstore "Euripidis", Chalandri
Perspectives of the Installation “Day by Day” on 7/12/2016 - 21/1/2017
“ DAY BY DAY became three-dimensional and took its place in the space, moving to the rhythm of the bookstore and the vibe of the book fans.
It knows that it will get more than it will give. For 45 days it will be sharing DAYS and NIGHTS with the most diverse bookstore in Athens. ”


''After so many years that, wanting to escape the fear, he had run crazy, pointless, he finally stopped'' —Albert Camus


''Someone caught someone else hunting, who, as he ran to escape, in turn chased a third, who, not realizing that he was being chased, simply continued to walk briskly on the sidewalk'' —Daniel Harms


''Problems are not solved in a flash, as many small different experiences need to be gathered'' —Umberto Eco


''Every word I deposited was not a road sign,
but bypass, material for remakes'' —George Perec


''There were seas with such a rare beauty that, when I saw them, my enjoyment was increased by surprise.'' —Marcel Proust


''The biggest lesson the smallest.'' —G. Karantonis


''The road is an honorary offer in the space. Every part of the road is equally endowed with a meaning and invites us to stand.'' —Milan Kundera


''Things are identified by names that always correspond to a concept of thought alien to our real impressions. We are then obliged to remove from them what is not related to this concept'' —Marcel Proust


''all the rain had sprinkled
our thirsty appearance'' —Angelos Sikelianos


''then, how a threatening and self-threaten world
could it mean a life?‘'' —G. Kalioris


''but the water is tied like a mirror'' —G. Seferis






Installation “Day by Day”
2014 – Today
(Work in progress)
Installation ”All Blue of Amfilochia” took place in the summer of 2014. It consisted of 42 works, 20 x 20 cm, painted with acrylics. It was not done, nor was it placed as a one-piece composition because I wanted these 42 crates to be self-existent, self-sufficient and to converse with each other in many ways. They change position, they change shape and new pieces are added that start new conversations. They travel, move away or come closer and they constantly ask and claim. Their special substance, the relationship between them, their uniqueness are the factors for the orderly functioning and existence of the whole and the course that is formed when day by day is the only reality.