Title: “Abu..!” (Oh, come on..!)

Year of creation: 2022

Dry etching

Dimensions: 30×35 cm

Abu!

The welcome of my grandfather, what is left of my childhood memories, that and my name, Mary, not Maria, Mary, from the affectionate Miriam, the Merim that was used to address the Virgin Mary. And as an inheritance, a surname, Kotzampougiouk, from the nickname “Kotzampougioukoglou”

kotzam=big, mpougiouk=bulky, oglou=son), the son of the bulky man, as he was a landowner with a large estate in Antalya, Asia Minor.

In reality, our surname was Christofides.

A story that is woven, an orange tree full of fruit, a door built stone by stone…

A suitcase of tools and knowledge. They brought their daily lives and adapted them, according to the needs of the time, to whatever conditions they had to survive, with honesty, dignity and respect for Great Mother Greece, her little children from Asia Minor.