STONE HOME

In this work, embroidery unfolds as a meditative act — a tactile exploration of the interconnected notions of home and homeland. Drawing on the language of women’s handicrafts and folk traditions, the piece opens a dialogue with domestic labour and cultural memory. Home emerges as both a womb and a wound, a site of tenderness interwoven with violence. The stone house becomes a symbol of the homeland itself — steadfast yet fragile, enduring yet exposed. The book honours inheritance as a generative yet ambivalent space, where fragility and endurance, loss and continuity, coexist.

ΥΣΤΕΡΑ Η ΚΟΙΛΙΑ ΜΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΣΕ ΠΑΛΙ ΝΑ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΤΑΝ ΗΡΘΕ Η ΚΑΤΑΛΛΗΛΗ ΣΤΙΓΜΗ ΓΕΝΝΗΣΑ ΚΙ ΕΓΩ ΤΗΝ ΠΕΤΡΑ ΠΟΥ ΕΜΕΛΛΕ ΤΟ ΠΑΤΡΙΚΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΠΟΥ ΟΛΟ ΕΚΛΑΙΓΕ     

(THEN MY BELLY BEGAN TO GROW AND WHEN THE TIME WAS RIGHT I GAVE BIRTH TO THE STONE THAT WAS YET TO BECOME THE FAMILY THE HOME THAT WAS CONSTANTLY CRYING)

ΤΟ ΠΕΤΡΙΝΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ (STONE HOME), artbook, embroidery with metallic thread (Canson drawing paper 150gr), 8 pages, 24x19cm, 2025