According to Greek Mythology, Gaia, from ancient Greek “Γαία”, is the initial deity of Earth and personification of life. Using exclusively paper and charcoal, I created a conceptually layered paper-cut installation of a giant sleeping woman. Consisted of drawing organic patterns, she creates artificial roots that entwine in everything around her, to become art of it, to become part of us. The Art Historian Miguel Fernandez Belmonte, writes about the artwork :
“In the dream , in the thought.
In the fog it is difficult to distinguish the ground and our next steps.
Everything is white, but faint lines and shapes emerge.
They lie in the void, rise up and form a giant figure.
That breaks down into smaller pieces.
The pieces multiply and the total surface expand.
They become roots, leaves, waves, branches, a whole forest where continuous divisions follow their own natural rhythm.
Like cells, after their proliferation, they suddenly become conscious and become part of a larger organism.
The pieces are united and the figure gradually regrouped.
In the city, far from strange eyes, the figure grows, but retains its fragility and delicacy.
She closes her eyes to open ours.
The morning is no longer here.
The thought, the dream passed. Only the footprint left.
As a reminder that it was true, she left a few objects in the hands of her creator: a small brush, a charcoal and a piece of eraser.”

"Gaia" was exhibited in the Art Display Windows of OTE building on March 2019 in Thessaloniki.