A friend of ancient items, a bearer of memory, she leads us to tomorrow. Replete with graces, forms that are diverse and wise, ornamented with shapes and colours of the earth. Her body reveals layers of centuries, becomes one with its being, the shell of the soul.

The vessel of vast generosity, openhandedly delivered to us, to the world! It enables us to spread our wings and fly there where memory takes us and to whatever it is that the future creatively holds for us.

Maria Loizidou
Nicosia, December 1999

The work was created to mark ten years of operation of the Archaeological Museum of the George and Nefeli Giabra Pierides Collection (Donated by Clio and Solon Triantafyllides).

Silk screen heightened with gold and silver leaves.

Light grain drawing paper, Sennelier 200 g.
30 x 40 cm, 38 x 49 cm with frame.