Recently, I read a book about music and its influence in our lives, written by the Argentinian musician Daniel Barenboim, titled “Music Quickens Time”. At some point, the author explains the inummerable possibilities a musician has in his hands in interpreting a musical piece and talked about the incessant evolving of any idea in time. More specifically, “No idea can be implemented in all of its aspects at one time, just as a performer can present only certain aspects of the music in one performance, but cannot express everything contained within the score. ”That is my exact sentiment each time I choose one of my photos to use as the theme of my next project. The possibilities of each photo at hand are infinite, but only one of them will be chosen at the specific frame of time to be further explored and implemented. The writer of the book goes on to conclude “The distilled essence of an idea, which is infinite, must not be confused with its implementation, which is finite. The essence of an idea is unchangeable in time, while its implementation is a variable depending on time, inception and understanding”. With these thoughts in mind, I would like to comment on the making of my work titled “Using Order to Create Chaos”.

It all started with a little experiment I did, trying to determine whether I could put in use a photo printed in the smallest possible scale that my printer could produce. This experiment aimed in the creation of the work of art that I would send to the exhibition in India, where I was to participate. Strictly for technical reasons, so that the work of art would not be damaged during transportation, since it would travel rolled up in a cylinder, I wanted to minimize the surface of each photo used in my collage.
The photo that I chose for the experiment is the one below, depicting the facade of a building of the port of Thessaloniki:

The experiment was realized on an A4 sheet of paper, I was content of the result and, afterwards I went on with the creation of the India project. The photo used for the India project had nothing to do with the one of the experiment, since I used a totally different one. In the meantime, while working on other projects, the A4 sheet of the experiment, was laying around on my desk, treated with little respect. I even tried a red-inked pen on it to conclude whether there was any ink left in it or not…

A photograph, though, that I took of the part of the “experiment” that had not been defaced, inspired me for a new experiment. I had the new photo –that consisted of the many smaller ones- printed, and I used it in repetition in a new collage, to produce a work of art that comprises the “experiment” repeatedly, thus giving a new aspect to the original idea…

I named the new work “Using order to create chaos…or the consistent mess of our interconnected world…or just my state of mind!”