EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED

 After 3 years, it’s a new world!  I shouldn’t wait so long to write because it took me forever to access this blog, with emails, passwords, etc. So here I am, but is it the same me? I think not. No one can be the same after everything that has happened the last 3 years. The last time I wrote, there was relative peace in the world, now, War and preparation for more War! The last time I wrote, there was no pandemic, no fear of others. Coming out after the confinement, all the restrictions, numerous waves of the virus; it feels a little like we are Julia and Winston when they meet again.

Can Art help? How can it bring healing, peace and freedom? It can only be a sad chronicler or optimistic entertainer.

I am still experimenting with this new Blog format since I write so rarely and slowly. By the time one sentence is ready, a new update is necessary. Maybe with this iPad Pro I can add photos? Here goes! Well, I was able to download the painting, then the iPad froze....

War and Peace, Oil on Canvas, Marina Gavanski Zissis, 2022

Many of my latest works are abstracts. I wanted to show this one at the first Sendas Abiertas exhibit, but it had to be assembled since it is made of 4 paintings, and can be put together in various combinations.