Upcoming Exhibitions
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C.P. Cavafy: The Collected Poems – A New Translation
Translated by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
Arkadia Publications, 2025 | ISBN 978-1-7382939-1-9“
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Cavafy is an ultra-modern poet—a poet of future generations.This new translation by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos offers a fresh rendering of all 154 poems Cavafy finalized before his death in 1933—alongside extensive notes and contextual commentary. The edition honors Cavafy’s own careful curatorial instincts, providing readers with insight into the poet’s use of mixed linguistic registers, his thematic divisions (erotic, historical, and philosophical), and his modernist technique and free iambic form.Cavafy’s poetry remains powerfully resonant today: unapologetically homoerotic, politically astute, and philosophically rich Generations of readers have turned to his work for its clarity, irony, and honesty. In a voice at once ancient and startlingly modern, Cavafy reimagines history while remaining intimately personal and emotionally immediate.
Complementing the translation is a compelling visual suite by Christos Damianos, whose photo-based artworks—created over a decade in response to both the original Greek and its English rendering—invite new ways of seeing and experiencing the Hellenic world. Evocative rather than illustrative, the imagery extends Cavafy’s vision, offering an artistic dialogue that spans generations, geographies, and genres.This richly crafted edition follows earlier collaborations between the translator and artist, continuing their shared exploration of modern Greek poetry as living tradition. With its blend of textual sensitivity and visual innovation,
Residency & Art Exhibition
Scars and Seeds: Tracing the Memory of Nature
Artists:Christos Damianos & Greg ChiykowskiResidency
Mill Pond Gallery, Richmond Hill, ON | July 15–20, 2025
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In their collaborative residency and exhibition, Scars and Seeds: Tracing the Memory of Nature, artists Christos Damianos and Greg Chiykowski explore the enduring imprints left on the natural world by human activity—marks that reflect both ecological harm and nature's remarkable resilience. This project is rooted in environmental reflection and material experimentation, unfolding as a dynamic visual and tactile dialogue between destruction and renewal. Inspired by the poetic assertion that "Paper is ink’s sister" (Jason Logan), the residency focuses on the experimental creation of inks and handmade papers using foraged natural materials—earth pigments, lichens, bark, and plant matter. These elements become both the medium and the message, embodying a cyclical relationship between nature and the artistic process. Through the use of these self-harvested materials, the artists will create works—drawings, photography, paintings, and handmade papers—that trace the visible impact of human intervention on the environment.
These pieces serve as "maps" of ecological trauma—simultaneously documenting and reinterpreting the landscape through a lens of hope, healing, and regeneration. The residency will take place at the Mill Pond studio and the surrounding nature reserve, transforming the space into a site for alchemical experimentation—boiling, fermenting, and grinding materials to produce natural inks and mediums that carry the physical and symbolic DNA of the land. This process of transforming landscape into mark-making material will culminate in immersive visual experiences that engage viewers both physically and conceptually. Through layered stains, gestures, and embedded fibers, the audience is invited to reflect on what remains, what can return, and how we might witness and actively shape nature's evolving story. Scars and Seeds is at once an elegy and an invocation, posing the question: How do we carry the memory of the land, and how might we contribute to its care and restoration?