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The Ideogram
The Ideogram
A trace-like ideogram that brings together the human presence and the landscape,
between stillness and freedom
The trace-like ideogram, created by Vasiliki Kateri for the MANI | Kazantzakis – Zorbas Project by KALLIERGON syn, brings together the human presence and the landscape.
Within this context, the festival “In the Footsteps of Kazantzakis and Zorbas: Land, Human and Freedom in Kazantzakis’ Mani” unfolds, taking place this September (25–27) in Stoupa, Western Mani.
Its structure is based on a minimal, almost primordial relationship between a vertical and a curved form — an axis between stillness and movement, contemplation and freedom. The human figure is not presented as dominant, but as part of a dynamic relationship with place, revealed through a gradual layering.
The hierarchy of lines plays a significant role: the main forms (Kazantzakis and Zorbas) are of equal thickness and function as the dominant elements, the wave is rendered with a slightly finer line as a secondary element, while the mountain peaks, in the background, are drawn with an even finer line, forming a third level.
It is, ultimately, an incision — a trace upon the earth: spirit – body – place – flow
• Kazantzakis (curved form) → inward movement / creation
• Zorbas (upright form) → outward movement / freedom
• Taygetus (in the background) → place
• Sea wave (base) → continuity, root