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My work investigates the interwoven realms of memory, myth, and environment, with the sea and ancestral histories at its core. Rooted in my Greek heritage and informed by research into ancient Greek women’s traditions and conversations with contemporary women weavers in Naxos, I explore weaving as both a material practice and a way of carrying stories across generations. These connections form the conceptual and material framework for my printmaking. I approach printmaking as a form of visual weaving, bringing fragments of image, material, memory, and experience into relationship. Working between abstraction, figuration, and symbolism, I create layered compositions that inhabit the space between personal narrative and collective memory, where perception, history, identity, and place converge. Printmaking expands this exploration by allowing images and materials to be transferred, repeated, reversed, fragmented, and reassembled, mirroring the ways memory itself is constructed and recalled. My process is intuitive and responsive. Monotype, textile transfer, pins, repetition, reversal, and chine-collé allow chance to become an active collaborator. Layered fabric swatches serve as printing plates, producing unexpected textures and impressions. I then work back into the prints with paint and pencil, refining surface, tone, and form. Printed fragments bind these layers together, creating dreamlike, multidimensional works in which images emerge, disappear, and transform. Like weaving, printmaking allows fragments to accumulate into something larger than themselves. The physical processes of layering, transfer, and repetition become metaphors for the accumulation of memory and inherited experience. What emerges is shaped as much by discovery as by intention—a continual dialogue between material, memory, nature, and human experience.