The work is an audiovisual installation on the theme of transformation, interweaving the fields of Sound Art, Video Art, and Artistic Audiovisual Installations. At the same time, it draws material for semiotic connections from the fields of Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Philosophy. Technically, it utilizes principles of narrative writing, forms of poetic expression, and specifications of journal writing. Another important field in terms of the application and targeting of the work is that of Sound Therapy, where with a holistic orientation, examining multifaceted interpretations of the thematic of transformation, as well as modern creative means for its artistic performance, it aims to create associations in the viewer for the process of transformation symbolically/philosophically and realistically/biologically, as an innate and common need among existing beings, in nature and in the human species itself.
Basic interpretative symbols are the butterfly - especially the monarch butterfly, from the cocoon to its final form - and at the same time the sound of a "waterfall" that a swarm of these butterflies produces when they fly together, symbols that are framed by the therapeutic role of nature, sound and music in everyday life, in flow. In the inspiration that turns into expression through artistic creation and ends in “personal rebirth”. Listening to simple everyday sounds and observing corresponding images are reinterpreted as tools for self-expression and creation, where the result of personal psychosomatic euphoria over a time spectrum can be used for changes, for transformations. In fact, special emphasis is placed on the personal relationship of each person with their “small self” and their childhood, when making decisions at critical moments. The “transformation into a butterfly” connects the self with the search for and finding our center. The butterfly is “the form of the center”, reconciliation, acceptance of the self and its flowering. The union of the past and the present.
Supervisor: Emmanouil Rovithis, Co-supervisor: Christina Mitsani
