Many of your works have nature and landscapes as their main themes. What is the reason behind these themes, and what are you exploring through your works?This is needed, that is why I explore these themes. My main intention was always to bring attention and awareness of the beauty and importance of such landscapes, and as I said before, I now understand that this outcry must be done from a place of love and compassion for ourselves for having created such a nightmare. That is the main reason for which I make art, to share a loving point of view of the situation. This same love for what I make comes from my Greek ancestors.
I think the harm we do to the Earth nowadays is a reflection of the harm we do to ourselves. It will be difficult to change this if we continue to harm ourselves and each other. I think it all resumes down to love: love for ourselves, love for each other, love for the Earth. Nature will prevail, always. But we are involved in vicious cycles of consuming and owning not deeply realizing that this resumes in our own hatred. Our lack of self-respect. It is not much of nature needing to be saved, but more of us being saved.
We really don’t know what can happen in the future. Planet Earth has had cycles, we must learn how to live in harmony with ourselves and each other, and that will be reflected in the way we relate to the Earth.
Several of your works are displayed so that the audience can directly interact with them, sitting or even resting down upon them. What do you hope for the audience to feel through their experience with your work?My aim is to create an embodied piece. I always felt this thing of reality and illusion a textile can give, in my aim to represent this idea of time, and its presence or its absence. I create spaces in which a body can feel itself.