Cosmopolitan
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 90 cm 
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A few months back, I  was asked by a wonderful professor from the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies to paint an artwork to accompany an upcoming book launch of an extraordinary work narrating Colonel Treloar's story who enabled 108,000 survivors of the Genocide of the Hellenes to begin the process of rebuilding their lives. 

 Quite Serendipitous, I found myself in a boat floating over Vosporo last month, witnessing the scaffoldings and crane above Ayia Sofia's head. I remembered when I was a kid and my dad took me to that church, telling me how the story told by the tour guides is different every time he visits. So I wanted to show this change of times in a way. The migrating swallows are a dear subject matter lately, in this case traveling North.


Πες μου τι ζητάς
στους σταθμούς που αγάπησες
ό, τι κι αν σου πουν
οι πυξίδες δείχνουν πάντα το βοριά
Αν δεν προδωθείς
απ' τα χνάρια που άφησες
δε θα λυτρωθείς
αν γυρίζεις στα λημέρια της πληγής