MONTHS. THE MOON.

This artist’s book draws from rural Greek daily diaries. Hand-embroidered onto paper, it becomes an intimate, tactile object where embroidery transforms memory into repetition and ritual.

OI ΜΗΝΕΣ. ΤΟ ΦΕΓΓΑΡΙ. (MONTHS. THE MOON.) variant II, artist’s book, embroidery with cotton thread, digital printing (Insize modigliani paper 200gr), hand-crafted typeface, 15 pages, 16x16cm, 2025

The embroidered motifs are inspired by the book ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΡΑΔΟΣΙΑΚΑ ΜΟΤΙΒΑ (GREEK TRADITIONAL MOTIFS), Volume 4, E.O.M.M.E.X., 1985

References of the poem ΤΟ ΦΕΓΓΑΡΙ. ΤΟΥ ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. (JANUARY. MOON.):

«Εξ αποστάσεως ο σπαραγμός της φωτιάς γίνεται φέγγος, φως που λαμπρύνει και λάμπει.» (By afar the fire’s scream becomes glimmer and light that brightens and shines.) — The Novel of Mrs. Ersi, N. G. Pentzikis, 1966

«Εγώ, όμως, δεν πιστεύω στην απομυθοποίηση — γιατί ο μύθος είναι η ανέκαθεν αλήθεια.» (I, however, do not believe in demythologization — because myth has always been the truth.) — N. G. Pentzikis, Interview with S. Tsagkarousianos, 1985

MONTHS. THE MOON. Variant I, was exhibited in ON THE SEA OF MY TTTTTONGUE (Gramma Epsilon, Athens, Greece, 2024), and now belongs to a private collection; Variant II continues the series

[photo credit: Stathis Mamalakis, ON THE SEA OF MY TTTTTONGUE, Gramma Epsilon © 2024]