Socially Engaged Work
In the Hellenic tradition, Praxis — πρᾶξις — is purposeful action in the world. These projects began there.
Made between 2007 and 2012, this work grew from a conviction that the artist belongs in the civic landscape as a participant, not an observer. Inspired in part by the activist spirit of composer Mikis Theodorakis, these projects engaged directly with pressing social, political, and environmental concerns — through imagery, community organizing, public writing, and direct action alongside the artmaking itself.
The passion driving this work was the same passion that drives everything else. Here it turned outward — toward the world at large, toward community, toward the hope that art might inform, move, and activate the people who encountered it.
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The State of Greece
ΕΝΟΙΚΙΑΖΕΤΑΙ - ΠΩΛΕΙΤΑΙ FOR RENT – FOR SALE The words: ΕΝΟΙΚΙΑΖΕΤΑΙ - ΠΩΛΕΙΤΑΙ: FOR RENT - FOR SALE dominate the streets, structures and spaces of Greece, repeating themselves ad nauseam along blocks of once occupied homes and shops, spelling out the current, disastrous Greek state of affairs. It is impossible to ignore these signs, and their menacing forebodings. They point to a co-existent yet sometimes hidden stress, poverty, and lack of a clear future for Greece that are only too obvious to the people of Greece. |
