Picnic cave (2025)Pencil drawing
by Andromachi Giannopoulou

Τhree-tiered cake.
On the first tier, a couple is having a picnic is implied. On the second tier, there is a window of a cottage house. The third and smallest tier is a chest.

Inspired by my grandmother’s house in a village, which was built in a mountainous area and therefore had different levels—not necessarily one directly above the other—something that made wandering through it a bit peculiar.
In that house, I used to fantasize about my life with the man I would marry, with whom I would be in love forever.
Inside the house, with its thick stone walls, there was also a chest which, like most grandchildren, I imagined to be hiding secrets and treasures.

part of the collection "The Poetics of Space"

{I have always been interested in spaces in dreams (rooms, labyrinths, passages etc.) and my research lead me to Gaston Bachelard's "The poetics of Space". I found in that book many images, symbols and thoughts I had been using in my work and in my fantasies since I was a child. Shells, nests, connected rooms, caves and shelters are some of the spaces that inspire me.}

Materials used:

pencil

Details:

• Pencil drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 15 x 20 x 0.1cm (unframed) / 15 x 20cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Graphic, illustrative and typographic
• Subject: Architecture and cityscapes

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