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"Immanuel Kant", acrylic on gesso board, Bishop Maxim, 2024
A robust portrait with a solid architecture of face and hair, embodying meticulous contemplation and austere philosophy, with an expression of perfection that permits no void or innocent joy from any error. The tonal notes of the garment resemble the dead leaves of autumn—“les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle”—as if echoing some Mozart score, where beneath an outburst of joy lies the most noble sorrow.
—Stamatis Skliris