After the Fine Arts Academy in Italy I went to Holland and then back to Athens. Changing countries affected my work. In Athens I went through a destructive phase, Many of my paintings suffered, as I did, because I couldn't make up my mind. That was the reason I stopped painting in 1992 after cutting many works in pieces.  Not as tragic as it sounds, I turned them into another work. :-) The following solution in 1997 made me very happy: Painting and cutting magnetic foil and then laying the pieces on an iron surface with a steel frame in the back, let made by the smith in my neighbourhood to resemble a canvas. Unfortunately I did the photos myself at a time where my space was abandoned, after the 1999 earthquake in Athens, bad light, dust and rust...