My practice is led by emotion and intuition, exploring transformation, inherited memory, and the ways material and image can carry traces of cultural history. Working primarily through painting, I investigate how identity is shaped through the continuous dialogue between personal experience, mythology, nature, and collective memory.
I explore Greek mythology and my Byzantine heritage not as visual references to the past, but as living frameworks through which I question contemporary ideas of identity, belonging, vulnerability, and renewal. Figures emerge, dissolve, and intertwine, occupying spaces where human, animal, and spiritual forms exist in continual transformation.
Silk has become an integral part of my practice, not only through its connection to my family’s history as descendants of Byzantine silk merchants, but through the way it affects how I approach the painting. Its softness and translucency direct the movement of pigment across the surface; paint bleeds and shifts in ways that are difficult to control. There is something almost life-like in working with it, a dialogue between me and the materials: the shine, the movement, the non-conformity of its bleeds. I have to respond and adapt to the material rather than impose myself upon it. This unpredictability has pushed me to let go of control, trust my intuition, and seek a greater sense of freedom within the work.
Movement is central to my process. Layered brushstrokes reject fixed compositions, creating rhythmic surfaces that encourage slow looking and sustained contemplation. Rather than offering resolution, the paintings remain open, inviting viewers to encounter transformation as something ongoing rather than complete.
Through my work, I seek to create spaces where history is not preserved as something distant, but experienced as something living and continually reshaped through material, gesture, and imagination.
我的创作以情感与直觉为指引，探索蜕变、承袭的记忆，以及物质与图像如何承载文化历史的印记。我主要通过绘画进行创作，探究身份认同如何在个人经历、神话、自然与集体记忆的持续对话中得以塑造。
我探索希腊神话与自身的拜占庭血脉渊源，并非将其仅仅视为对过去的视觉参照，而是将其作为鲜活的框架，借此审视当代关于身份、归属感、脆弱性与重生的观念。画面中，人物形象时而浮现、消融，时而交织缠绕，置身于一个人类、动物与灵性形态不断流变的空间之中。
丝绸已成为我创作中不可或缺的一部分，这不仅源于我作为拜占庭丝绸商后裔的家族渊源，更在于它影响了我处理绘画的方式。丝绸的柔软与半透明特质引导着颜料在表面的流动；颜料的晕染与位移往往难以完全掌控。这种创作过程仿佛充满生命力，是我与材料之间的一场对话——涵盖了光泽、动态以及晕染效果那不循规蹈矩的特质。我必须顺应并适应材料的特性，而非强行施加意志。这种不可预测性促使我放下掌控欲，信任直觉，并在作品中寻求一种更广阔的自由感。
“动态”是我创作过程的核心。层叠的笔触打破了固定的构图，营造出富有韵律感的画面，引导观者放慢脚步，进行持久的凝视与沉思。这些画作并不提供确定的结论，而是保持开放姿态，邀请观者去体悟那种处于进行时而非已完成状态的蜕变过程。
我力求通过作品创造出一种空间：在这里，历史并非被当作遥远之物加以封存，而是通过物质、笔触与想象，作为一种鲜活且不断重塑的存在被切身体验。