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Study on a wave
I was letting the sea hold something for me — something I didn’t know how to name.
nikolopoulouzoe
Nov 261 min read
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Study on a crow
To me, the crow symbolizes the alchemy of feeling — the slow, internal process through which pain is transformed into understanding and grief into creation. It carries within its darkness a strange kind of light. It’s what light leaves behind.
nikolopoulouzoe
Nov 51 min read
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STUDY ON A MATCH
For me, this small match is less about fire than about consequence. Once lit, it cannot return to what it was. Its beauty — in the blue...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 251 min read
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Study on a spoon
When I worked on this spoon, I wasn’t just interested in drawing it accurately — I wanted to see how light alone could give it presence*....
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 231 min read
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Study on shadows
When I was making this study, I wasn’t so much thinking about a sail as I was about how it could almost disappear into atmosphere. The...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 201 min read
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Study no. 4
From Minimalism , I take the idea of restraint: the decision to remove excess, to strip down to what is essential. From Color Field...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 171 min read
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Study on a swimmer no. 48
The sea impacts the human psyche because it reflects its structure. Like the mind, it possesses surface calm and hidden turbulence,...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 121 min read
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Study on a swimmer no.44
When I painted this swimmer, what I was really painting was surrender. There is a moment when the body yields to the water, when the arms...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 111 min read
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Study on a ring
That’s the deceptive beauty of perception. I don’t actually see the world as it is—I see the version my brain builds for me, stitching...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 81 min read
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study of a match
Chalk and charcoal What haunts the eye most is the smoke. It drifts, pale and ephemeral, refusing form, just as the presence of a lost...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 71 min read
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Study of a pillow
To draw it was to sit at the edge of dream. The pillow spoke to me in silence, not as an object but as a soft ghost of what once rested...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 51 min read
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Study of nature
In these tokens is revealed a single occult law—that death is no ruin, but transformation, a shifting of essence into subtler realms. The...
nikolopoulouzoe
Sep 21 min read
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Study on temptation
This painting began as an exercise on temptation , and I found myself circling around its familiar symbols—the fruit, the serpent, the...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 311 min read
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Study of a dead bird
What unsettles me most is the silence around it. The bird does not narrate its fall; it simply is. In that stillness, the painting...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 311 min read
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Study of a tree
This kind of study is always a struggle for me. The moment I sit with the tree and try to translate its twisted form onto paper, I feel...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 281 min read
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Mushrooms
When I drew these two mushrooms, I let their stems cross and knot together almost instinctively. The lines weren’t meant to be perfectly...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 271 min read
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Study of a dead deer
This study focuses on the anatomy and posture of a deer in a prone position. Using graphite, I explored the weight distribution of the...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 161 min read
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Plate No. XVII – Rosa, study in decline
Specimen rendered upon black ground to heighten contrast of pallor against depth. Outer petals exhibit marked curling and fraying at...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 131 min read
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Study of a wing
In studying the butterfly wing, I am reminded that nature builds with both precision and poetry. Every margin, vein, and angle serves a...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 111 min read
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Study of a cat and a glass
Pencils on paper / 30x21 cm Excitement, here, takes the shape of a cat leaning into the promise of discovery — a poised arch of the back,...
nikolopoulouzoe
Aug 101 min read
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