Growing up and living across countries and continents, I have learned to accept the in-between state of being. I am both profoundly nomadic and deeply attached to language, memories, and culture. As a child, I was fascinated by ancient Greek myths and by the stories told to me of my Greek and Francophone family’s journeys—the escape from Smyrna, the moves across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and America. The longing for a home, and the quiet resignation that it may never fully materialize except temporarily, is something all uprooted beings feel, and I am no exception. Stepping outside myself has become a regular exercise—one that, over the years, has allowed me to welcome the incongruences and paradoxes of the human condition, and even to celebrate them. I am an anxious optimist: I look forward to the journey even as I remain aware of its potential travails.This series explores the impulse to connect things together, to draw a road map for our life journey, only to watch it take detours toward the unknown. As I developed this body of work, letting my hand move from one area of the canvas to another, objects and references from childhood memories began to intertwine with mythical images. Slowly, they formed a landscape that is both deeply personal and open—what I call my “mythologies.”