Like a child, I love to collect interesting pebbles from beaches, stones with sculptural shapes, strangely twisted roots, bones bleached by the sun and even rusty cans. Mainly in the wild canyons and scree slopes in the Cretan mountains.
They are sculptures created by nature.
These were the sources of inspiration for many artists especially Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore of the late twentieth century.
For me they mean more than inspiration, not wanting to transform or intervene.
Their being is the ultimate aesthetic statement.
You just need to be a kind of “curator” to decide what is worth exhibiting and how to present your choice.
But how do you give your found objects meaning?
According to Marcel Duchamp, at the beginning of the twentieth century, you can give any mundane object meaning, by placing it on a pedestal, thus metaphorically “spotlighting” it.
I have collected certain objects that are very meaningful to me aesthetically as well as relational to the location during my Notopo climbing explorations in Crete. For me they have – if not a mystical – then at least an emotional quality. They are my Totems, displaying my connectedness to the wild Cretan hills. So I am experimenting with the idea of combining mystical nature religion with the Christian altar design of medieval times. Thus placing the found objects in a shrine setting as a statement for the power of creation.


