The presented photographic works are not about depicting common reality, they are the result of a continuous study on the interpretation of specific visual elements under an artistic perception. Τhe photographer's intent is about suggesting and revealing new and more desirable aspects of reality in the form of photographic frames, strongly related to the sense of minimalism, symbolism, isolation and introvert mood. By utilizing the original scene merely as a canvas, the photographer creates art from carefully selected subjects that are usually unconventional, insignificant and uncommon to be used in a photographic frame. It is a novel way of utilizing the medium of photography to present a new reality, or, quoting Alberto Giacometti, "the object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity”...
Moving further on the attributes of such photographic works, the photographer finds artistic relevance to Brian Eno's quote for his view on ambient music: "it should be as ignorable as it is interesting". By this "plagiarism of intent", these photographic works act as unobtrusive decoration elements, effortlessly blending with the interiors they belong to but once someone decides to focus on the works themselves, the images are able to draw all of the viewer's interest to their own world. When inspected in terms of tonalities, shapes and structure, the viewer and the images are being detached from the interiors they belong to...
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