"In the last years, it became clear to me that being an architect or, better, feeling an architect, is not about working in an office, being, most of the time, away from bodily connection with our natural environments or the architecturally designed environments. Being a body architect means that I observe and analyze space from the perspective of the embodied experience, mine or of others. It became very important for my work to share my experience through art and bring questions of perception into public discussion and collective practice.

I am focusing my research interest on the representation of the human body in different cultures, societies, and social groups "in relation to" or "by the cause of" psychological, sociological and experiential forces. Following a methodology of improvisation and my own research patterns, I end up creating mixed media pieces that stand out as individual moments of expression or as part of a more complex narrative, following the labyrinth of quickly produced connection of thought and images. 

Following this pattern, I express my work in the form that is coming first in my mind, shifting from embroidery to visual art, to movement improvisation, to voice expression, writing, drawings etc. At the same time, I am proceeding with my ongoing research on bodily intelligence working with personal body practice and experience (I am working on the idea of exchanged pressure between body and matter: for example, ground, concrete, powder, wood, steel etc) and how movement is initiated, with academic and philosophical approaches on the perception of the body in the society (Foucault always stands as one of my main starting points of discourse), or the development of human senses (the architect Palasma, is an example of focusing on the importance of touch in the understanding of architecture and our surroundings in general). 

Working side to side with other artists always accelerates the process of realization and awareness, as it is very easy to speak your thoughts and share questions that might be of similar interest or base, try out exercises or go deep into discourses that open new ways of exploration. I am looking for those moments as I don't believe in one and only truth, in one and only view of this world, rather than in unique individual experiences, that can meet each other in short mutual agreements that shape our common grounds. I encourage the blending of arts and artistic expression by using various of them myself but also by supporting and the collaboration of artists, of different disciplines, in improvisational experiments of verbal & non-verbal communication, in an attempt to rediscover the potential of the sensing body." 

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EL.