Practitioner Statement – Exercise 1 (Enterprise)
I am a writer-artist whose work grows out of movement, memory, and the search for meaning. Everything I create carries a moral thread (a small truth at the centre) because I believe stories should help people see, feel, and understand the world a little differently. Like Aesop’s fables, my poems and narratives use simple language and clear imagery, but the emotions behind them are lived, complex, and real.
My creative practice sits between two poles.
On one side is China, a place where I spent long periods living and working inside factories, travelling across vast cities, and seeing life from the inside of systems that often remain invisible. These environments, their people, rhythms, challenges, and quiet human moments, became a deep source of material. Many of my pieces, such as Kanenas (Nobody) and The Land of the Lotus Eaters, came directly from my experiences in Cixi, Ningbo, and Dongguan. China taught me what it means to be displaced yet observant, humbled, and inspired by the everyday.
On the other side is ancient Greek mythology, especially Homer’s Odyssey, which offers me both language and structure. I recognise much of myself in the wandering of Odysseus: the longing for home, the storms, the delays, the unexpected helpers, the losses, the returns. My poems Leucothea, Aeolus and Nausicaä, Penelope (in Me) and others reinterpret myth to speak about modern exile, masculinity, survival, and inner transformation. Myth is not a distance for me; it is a mirror.
What joins these two poles is me: the traveller, the worker, the father, the migrant, the craftsman, the observer. I use bilingual and hybrid language (English, Greek, “Grenenglish”) to reflect how identity sounds when it moves between cultures. My work blends poetry, narrative, photography, and personal reflection because no single medium can carry everything I want to say.
At the heart of my practice is a simple intention:
to bring the world closer to people; through story, honesty, and emotional clarity.
I want my work to feel accessible, human, and resonant, no matter where the reader comes from. As I continue developing my creative voice, I aim to explore the space between myth and modern life, turning personal experience into universal narrative, just as storytellers have done for thousands of years.
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