Everything begins with a personal inheritance: summer.
Summer is not only a season; it is a state of mind.
A sense of freedom and light that returns again and again.

Blue, which dominates this body of work, functions simultaneously as color, emotion, and concept. Through collage and mixed media, figures and objects act as fragments that come together to evoke not merely an image, but a feeling: the feeling of summer as a continuous present.

We return to those childhood summers, when the world felt simple, open, and unguarded.
To a world that no longer exists — climatically, ethically, or as lived experience.
A world in which our ancestors were still present.
A world that faded quietly, as most of them passed away, taking with them a portion of time — but not of memory.

The swimmers of Always the Blue do not swim in the sea.
They swim in the waters of memory.

They move as that old world once moved:
without high-protection sunscreens,
without instructions,
without fear of exposure.

They swim freely, almost carelessly, within a blue that is not a color but a state of being.
A blue that returns again and again — as promise, as obsession, as refuge.

The works draw from personal memories, family traces, and collective recollections of a Greek summer that has now transformed into narrative. The sea is not presented as a landscape, but as an inner place. The figures hover between then and now, caught in a continuous motion of return.

Always the Blue speaks to the need to keep alive something that once shaped us.

Because perhaps, in the end,
that world continues to exist
only as long as we remember it.