1821 – 2021

Time runs cyclically on the eternal calendar of human freedom, testifying:

…the fustanella of Karaiskakis that, through an esoteric cosmic dance of manliness and defiant pride, reveals its masculine strength against its foes—causing them to vanish, stripped of all ethos and the very truth of existence…

…the 400 bonds of slavery that transform into 200 testimonies of national independence—one for each year of the nation’s freedom—as well as into another 200 modern days of confinement and the need to subdue the threat and fear they once sowed, challenging life as in times past.

This need became manifest because of the immoral evolution that spawned the oppression of death across every corner of the earth, like yet another form of subjugation…

…the sealed lips that silence the patience, the perseverance, the longing, and the fixation for freedom and dignity until the long-awaited moment arrives…

…the Cross of faith, revolution, resistance, and resurrection of the man of free thought and conscience—and his connection with the four corners of the horizon—so as to express the past, the present, the future, and the eternal aspect of the moral value system, as a symbol of freedom and the global unity of mankind, thereby elevating him to HUMAN BEING

The Work
Traditional fustanella with 400 pleats sewn onto Belgian linen,
150 x 150 cm
In every pleat, blue and white thread weaves the letters of a significant event in the history of the Greek nation from 1821 to 2021.
200 significant events in the history of the Greek nation

An artwork awarded by the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle of Thessaloniki and now part of its collection.