It is a series of works that represent miniatures of elderly women living today - almost isolated - in the Greek countryside. Heikastikos approaches female existence with a metaphysical dimension, as it emerges through the centuries, from the myths of antiquity to the history of Modern Greece. The work “The Old Ladies” symbolizes memory and is inspired by women - the traditional figures with the handkerchief and the mangora in hand: the women of the Occupation, the Resistance, the Interwar, the Civil War and the later era, who, as “figures” faced the adversity of life, staying in the background women, always behind the heroes.It is the women who preserved and saved the art of weaving, knitting and embroidery - crafts that have their roots in ancient times. Today they are the last living bearers of memory for the history and folklore tradition of Greece. Thus, this work pays tribute to these women, as guardians of cultural heritage, highlighting the beauty and power of traditional art from ancient times to modern culture.The size of the works does not exceed 25 centimeters. The blackened wooden figures bring out the imprint of time through the distortion and wear of the body. The dynamic shadows and rigid idols of each figure reflect the inner world of the human being and intersect between time and non-time, existence and non-existence, fiction and reality, in the form of the woman haunting the space.

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