“Since I can remember myself I was observing the people, the world and the shapes around me. I was studying the behavior of people individually but also as a whole. Glass has similar qualities with the psychological health of a person who is suffering. Fragile , vulnerable, sharp, dangerous, airy it relates to the fragmentation of the own self, with the person who doesn’t let others come close , with the summary of people ( society) , who doesn’t let anything “foreign or strange” invade it. The “ self “ in its weakest and sharpest form which resembles the reflection of a glass fragmentation wall, ready to collapse as soon as one small piece is being distracted.

In my work I tried to show the borderline of collapsing/ destruction. For construction I used pieces of glass, which I found thrown away in storage rooms or factories, brought them to my place, cleaned them and started gluing in order to give the impression falling into pieces. ( destruction). I was often working with bare hands to have direct contact with the material and its temperature. until the very last moment all the odds were against me: time, aesthetics and the resistance of the construction itself. Mainly the fact that I had taken something from the garbage to present it to the eyes of the viewer ( visitor), and If it was permitted to call it “art”, was weird.

Finally every movement had to be studied carefully first. Glass cuts. And it cuts badly. And it leaves a mark.” Giorgos Taxidis