You are active in many fields of art. What do you consider yourself to be: a painter, a photographer, a video artist, a writer, a poet, a psychologist, an actress? What do you want to achieve with your art?
I see myself as a “one-woman show”. I want my viewers to achieve a shamanistic experience with my art. The medium - whichever it may be - is not so important. More important for me is the idea, and to me, photography is a fast way to not have the feeling of “too much” in my head. It enables me to convert my ideas faster then in any other medium – that is why I have lately engaged myself mostly with photography.

What inspires you?
Not understanding something or someone. For example, I don’t understand aggression. It is interesting that when I try to depict it, I come to the understanding that the aggression comes out of not understanding. To understand it, I try to portray it visually. I think people nowadays often skip over emotions, or at least some of them. Thus I feel the need to transport them, reflect them into something - a story told in pictures with colors or with contrasts of white and black.

Would you agree that your work is quite narrative?
Yes. The story I hope for my work to speak, is to show that life is magical and that there is more to it then confronts the eye immediately. For this I like to rely on metaphors, both widely accepted ones– clichés, as well as unknown ones. I use clichés as a starting point since they are what people are accustomed to and thus understand as well as accept - making it more probable that they will accept also those that I am trying to transport to them. Then, as I work further on top of these with additions of different symbols, perspectives etc, I am able to “move forward” my viewers and bring them (in my opinion) to a more interesting place, a more unique point of view… bringing them to a higher state of sensitivity. For me it is most important to make my viewers more sensitive, since in this way, they will see more, not just in my art but also in life itself. This is the guiding principle of my art as well – my muse! Also, my psychological background plays a big part in my art in terms of theme.

What fascinates you about psychology?
Jung and particularly his collective unconscious. I see my shadows precisely as the visual collective unconscious and my color staged photography as the result of being inspired by it. Just the terminology of this term “collective unconscious” already appeals to me since it leaves much space for the portrayal of the interrelation and connectedness of psyches of people, as I feel also my shadows do. I like to mix things up or, better said, I do not try to separate one symbol from another just because it is originating from one particular country or epoch and the other from another country and/or epoch. I feel that my shadows carry out this intention of mine very faithfully, leaving a wide spectrum for imagination to move in. I want my shadows to create a melting pot, a means of joining different people, visions, ideas, perspectives. I hope for them to highlight the common line of vision that I believe to exist amongst people.

How does it feel to look at your photos and know that it is you?
I don’t see myself when I look at my photos. I see a creature – a certain character, half animal half person at times.

How would you say your later color works differ from your earlier black and white works?
Well, first of all I always try to work on both - just to keep them alive, since after all, I am both. We are both shadow, literary speaking as well as metaphorically, and body… but majority of my work lately is - I have to admit - in color photography. I feel these are more extrovert then the shadows. At the moment I feel myself more in an extrovert phase.

What are your future ideas, plans, wishes?
I want to continue working with the power principle. To show how the animal, Dionysus, meat, is usually stronger in people then the Apollo, the conscious man, the rational part, since people have dealt with this throughout time and territory.
Otherwise my plans and wishes are always, in all ways, jumping, tricking, changing, moving…I would like to combine sound, video, make a film of one fairy tale as well as a large photo book of contemporary fairytales. Moreover, I would like to get more engaged in performance art, to include it at openings of my solo exhibitions. Furthermore, I want to reintegrate painting, but perhaps later when I’m not ready to jump around so much in the outside. I also love, and always have loved, making things, feeling them with my fingers…which again brings me back to painting within which I have my own process - incorporating a lot of finger painting.

Your last exhibition was under the title ‘Tropheada’. What was the inspiration for this?
I wanted to give a meaning to the death of each of those animals that my father had in the past hunted down… I wanted to transform their death into a sacrifice, a sacrifice for awareness, to make others feel a longing for these animals to be alive when looking at my pictures… this is what I hope they bring about in my viewers …