Itea 10+1 – 2023 olive charcoal drawing installation

During this residency the big fires of olive trees two year ago, were my inspiration for my work. I made charcoal of local olive tree branches. Then I conducted workshops whit local inhabitants and they produced blindfolded charcoal drawings, supported by sounds produced by Dimitris Talarougas. They related their drawings with the fires. They’re appr. 30 drawings I used to make the installation, which was on view for on the exhibition of the residency. The residency was organized by Panos Mitspoulos and Nienke Brokke.

finding olive tree branches
cutting right size for container
putting branches in container
closing container of from oxygen
firing the branches
charcoal ready for use

students making blindfolded drawings with olive charcoal and supported by sounds
installation made out of appr. 30 of charcoal drawings collected during workshops
installation on view where attendances looked for their own pieces