10 colored drawings for the poems of George Seferis 1965

Yiannis Moralis made this colored drawing for the poems of George Seferis without any specific date, and the process here seems almost like a dance between representation and abstraction. The shades of grey and black create a somber, reflective mood, almost like looking at a memory fading at the edges. The texture of the drawing is really interesting; you can see the grain of the paper and the way the pigment sits on the surface. Look at the central figure—it's like a ghost, barely there, rendered with a few simple strokes. And then there’s the architectural structure framing the figures, which feels solid, almost oppressive. This drawing reminds me a bit of Giorgio de Chirico, with its haunting atmosphere and classical allusions. But Moralis brings something unique here, a certain lightness amidst the melancholy, that's very much his own.