Ταξίδι από την βία προς την αγάπη για τον εαυτό μου
A journey from violence to self-love…
Prologus
Liber I : Genesis
Liber II: Vis | Violence
Liber III: Tria Vasa | The Three Vases
Liber IV: Regnum Animale | Animal Kingdom
Liber V: Viridarium | Pleasure Garden
Liber VI: Renascor | Rebirth
Epilogus
Prologus
χρυσαλλίς (Προοίμιον)|Chrysallis (Prooemium)
Gold leaf and egg tempera on prepared paper mounted on panel, 61 x 91,4 cm (24 × 36 in.)
„In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas
corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas)
adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi
ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen!“
My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange! Immortal Gods inspire my heart, for ye have changed yourselves and all things you have changed! Oh lead my song in smooth and measured strains, from olden days when earth began to this completed time.
(Invocation in Book 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by More, Brookes. Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922)
LIBER I: GENESIS
λᾶας/λαός|Stone/People
24k goldpoint on prepared paper mounted on panel, 50,8 x 61 cm (20 × 24 in.)
„καὶ Διὸς εἰπόντος ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς ἔβαλλεν αἴρων λίθους, καὶ οὓς μὲν ἔβαλε Δευκαλίων, ἄνδρες ἐγένοντο, οὓς δὲ Πύρρα, γυναῖκες. ὅθεν καὶ λαοὶ μεταφορικῶς ὠνομάσθησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λᾶας ὁ λίθος.“
And at the bidding of Zeus he took up stones and threw them over his head, and the stones which Deucalion threw became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women. Hence people were called metaphorically people (laos) from laas, “a stone.”
(Apollodorus’ “The Library” (1.7.2) translated by Sir James George Frazer. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 121 & 122. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921)
LIBER II: VIS | VIOLENCE
σπαραγμός (εἰς Πενθέα)|Mangling (To Pentheus)
24k goldpoint, silverpoint and egg tempera on traditionally gessoed panel, 35,6 x 45,7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
εἰς Σαρπηδόνα|To Sarpedon
24k goldpoint, silverpoint and egg tempera on traditionally gessoed panel, 40,6 x 50,8 cm (16 × 20 in.)
εἰς Ὀρφέα|To Orpheus
egg tempera on traditionally gessoed panel, 12,7 x 17,8 cm (5 × 7 in.)
εἰς τὸ βλέμμα τῆς Μέδουσας|To Medusa’s gaze
egg tempera on traditionally gessoed panel, 22,9 x 30,5 cm (9 × 12 in.)
εἰς Μαρσύαν (Ένας επικήδειος: "Αλλά πριν από τότε")|To Marsyas (A Eulogy: "But before then"), goldpoint, silverpoint & egg tempera on paper mounted on panel, 61 x 121,9 cm
LIBER III: TRIA VASA | THE THREE VASES
Ἐρυθρομόρφου ἀγγείου κάρα|Head of a Red-figure vase
gouache on paper mounted on panel, 25,4 x 25,4 cm (10 × 10 in.)
Νεκρικῆς ληκύθου κάρα|Head of a Funerarry Lekythos
gouache on paper mounted on panel, 25,4 x 25,4 cm (10 × 10 in.)
Μελανόμορφου ἀγγείου κάρα|Head of a Black-figure vase
gouache on paper mounted on panel, 25,4 x 25,4 cm (10 × 10 in.)
LIBER IV: REGNUM ANIMALE | ANIMAL KINGDOM
εἰς Ἀστέριον (ad astra)|To Asterius (to the stars), 24k goldpoint, silverpoint, ink, egg tempera, gold & white gold leaf on paper mounted on panel, 45,7 x 61 cm (18 × 24 in.)
CAVE LUPAM|Beware of the Wolf
Egg tempera and goldleaf on prepared paper mounted on panel, 76,2 x 101,6 cm (30 × 40 in.)
Πώς να γίνω πουλί|How to become a bird
gouache and graphite on paper, 33,66 × 40 cm (13 × 16 in.)
ἐν Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾳ|Fly (in Cuckoonebulopolis)
24k goldpoint, silverpoint and egg tempera on prepared paper mounted on panel, 61 x 121,9 cm (24 × 48 in.)
LIBER V: VIRIDARIUM | PLEASURE GARDEN
ἐν κήπῳ|In the Garden
24k goldpoint, silverpoint, gouache and collage on mineral paper, 45,7 x 61 cm (18 × 24 in.)
ο Δοκιμαστής|Taste Tester
24k goldpoint, silverpoint, ink, egg tempera, on paper mounted on panel, 45,7 x 61 cm (18 × 24 in.)
LIBER VI: RENASCOR | REBIRTH
εἰς τοὺς ὑφ' ἡλίου καταλαμπομένους|Hymn to the Sun-Lit Ones
24k goldpoint, silverpoint, gold leaf, and egg tempera on prepared paper mounted on panel, 76,2 x 101,6 cm (30 × 40 in.)
Από μάρμαρο και μελανίνη|Melanated Marble
charcoal, white chalk, silverpoint, marble dust on prepared paper, 35,6 x 45,7 cm (38 × 50 in.)
Epilogus
nil nisi vultus vestri (Epilogus)|Nothin but y’all’s face (Epilogue)
Gold leaf on panel in black frame, 61 x 91,4 cm (10 × 14 in.)
„cum volet, illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius
ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi...
perque omnia saecula...
vivam.“
“Whenever it will, let the day come, which has dominion only over this mortal frame, and end for me the uncertain course of life…through all the coming years of future ages, I shall live…”
(Book 15 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by More, Brookes. Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922)
