Turquoise 1 – Losing turquoise series – Ioustini Drakoulakou
🔹 140 x 115 cm – Edition of 3 + 2 AP – €1,300 (+ framing costs) 🔹 20 x 16.67 cm – Edition of 5 + 2 AP – €300 (+ framing costs) 🔹 Printing : Inkjet printing on archival paper ( museum quality that uses refined pigment particles to create beautiful, high-resolution works of art)
Turquoise 1 opens the Losing Turquoise series like a geological secret being unlocked. Captured through a polarizing microscope at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, this image reveals a slice of eternity: a fragment of turquoise observed at a microscopic scale, from the only known turquoise deposit in Greece, located in Vathi Kilkis.
The gaze is lost in this bluish, crystalline material, both blurred 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.
