Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Landing-.mp3"][/audio] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2D0WTKP5u8[/embed] This piece is an effort to render visually a speech by David Brower – a distinguished American environmentalist – that juxtaposes man’s existence and economic growth with the existence of the natural environment....
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/But-man-goes-on-.mp3"][/audio] (two lights for one shadow) Will man adapt in order to go on? Sooner or later, willingly or not, man will have to take corrective action. And such action shall have...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/And-chaos-again.mp3"][/audio] Chaos existed before and shall exist again. But the meaning of chaos changes and grows as humankind evolves. The expansion of our knowledge, which provides answers to many questions, also poses new, existential...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/And-we-sing-carefree-in-the-rain-.mp3"][/audio] It is by now an indisputable fact that our planet’s climate has changed. And that is one of the Earth’s changes which, unfortunately, we have been able to perceive during the timescale of...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/But-giants-become-boxes-.mp3"][/audio] And while we live among giants, the high-rises and skyscrapers we mentioned previously, in the last 20 years we have confined ourselves to boxes… Computers and smart phones. We have created a new...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/And-we-start-living-among-giants-.mp3"][/audio] In the beginning, humans lived in caves. Then they began constructing their own abodes, using various materials such as wood, foliage, mud. The rise of the Earth’s population, the concentration of people in...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Here-comes-the-small-step.mp3"][/audio] On July 20th, 1969, the Apollo 11 space mission landed a man on the moon for the first time. Neil Armstrong’s phrase, “a small step for man, a giant leap for mankind”, remains...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Music-as-medicine-.mp3"][/audio] One thing that makes our world indisputably better is music. From ancient times to the present, all around the world, in every human civilization, music consistently appears as a form of expression, recreation...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/And-the-unbearable-brutality-of-the-being-is.mp3"][/audio] The industrial revolution and war both contributed to the expansion of conflict between social groups, and also conflict between man and nature. This piece speaks about the conflict between man and nature, focusing...
Listen the analysis of the artwork by the voice of Sofia Hatzoglou: [audio mp3="https://vaitsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-world-bleeds-.mp3"][/audio] There have always been, and there will always be, wars. But the 20th century saw two world wars, with immense casualties. If only wars could end, and we could retain only to the...