Turquoise 1 – Losing turquoise series – Ioustini Drakoulakou
🔹 140 x 115 cm – Edition of 3 + 2 AP(plus supervision fees) 🔹 20 x 16.67 cm – Edition of 5 + 2 AP + framing fees) 🔹 Printing : Inkjet printing on archival paper ( museum quality that uses refined pigment particles to create beautiful, high-resolution artwork)
Turquoise 1 opens the Losing turquoise series like a glimpse of a geological secret. Captured through a polarizing microscope at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, this image reveals a slice of eternity: a fragment of turquoise observed at the microscopic scale, from the only known turquoise deposit in Greece, located in Vathi Kilkis.
The gaze is lost in this bluish, crystalline material, both blurry and precise, like a fading mineral memory. By combining art and science, Ioustini Drakoulakou explores the disappearance of a geological treasure while paying homage to the fragile memory of the Earth.
Turquoise I is a suspended vision, a poetic imprint of what remains when all seems already lost.
