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A home within a shell.
A retreat.
A shelter from the noise, the pressure, the gaze.
Sometimes we carry our refuge with us,
sometimes we become it.

This piece is about the delicate need to withdraw, to fold inward, to breathe in silence.

Materials used:

oilpastel, color pencils

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#contemporary art #shell #safe place #introspection #oilpastel #purple lilac #retrear #feminine power #poetics space #feminine vulnerability 

Shell house (2025) Pastel drawing
by Andromachi Giannopoulou

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A home within a shell.
A retreat.
A shelter from the noise, the pressure, the gaze.
Sometimes we carry our refuge with us,
sometimes we become it.

This piece is about the delicate need to withdraw, to fold inward, to breathe in silence.

Materials used:

oilpastel, color pencils

Tags:
#contemporary art #shell #safe place #introspection #oilpastel #purple lilac #retrear #feminine power #poetics space #feminine vulnerability 
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My practice moves between memory and imagination, between the visible and the barely felt. I approach art-making as a form of intuitive excavation — an attempt to trace the inner... Read more

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