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Katerina Stamatelos - Artist

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I have been drawing since my childhood: models in fanciful dresses, but mostly entire cities.   I also used to write poetry.   Throughout my adolescence, several teachers of different disciplines were trying to talk me into this or the other artistic profession.   All had one common demand: absolute devotion.   I followed that by choosing piano performance and, over the next decades, I devoted myself to this art entirely.   I was happy with my decision but not entirely happy to have chosen only one direction-and, secretly, continued drawing..The good thing about my...more
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Through The Broken Glass

This series of paintings is inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film “Through a Glass Darkly”. I saw it in Greece, during my adolescence, and this was the exact Greek translation of the Swedish title. I was going through a dark time myself and was deeply impressed by the film which, many decades later, helped me clear up certain destructive “motherly” darkness influencing my being as a woman as well as my sense of sanity. I never suffered from illusions, as in the film. However, my mother was constantly on her her chief goal: proving me as “insane.” Being a narcissistic “mother” herself, her place should have been in an asylum-not raising children. Finally she died at the age of 95, after having managed to completely destroy the lives of her entire family. “Thank you mother-go to Hell, mother.”

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