Palace in Minos 1988

Nassos Daphnis built this "Palace in Minos" from blocks of color, like a child playing with geometry. I wonder, what's it like to be so sure of your edges? To make a painting with no visible brushstrokes, no fuzziness, no trace of the hand... He might have used tape to get those clean lines, or maybe he just had a really steady hand. I can imagine him carefully filling in each shape, one at a time, like fitting pieces into a puzzle. The red hovers above the blue. The black looms from above. It reminds me a bit of Mondrian, but where Mondrian feels balanced, Daphnis feels precarious. That little yellow rectangle at the bottom, propping up the larger blue form like a keystone... it’s crucial! Without it, the whole composition would collapse. It’s almost like a dare. I bet he was a cool guy, Nassos.