Petsalis’ work is a visual search and exploration in the plastic and expressive possibilities of the materials, in order to create works with rhythm and harmony that cause pleasure, reverie and surprise. Both the creation of the work and the viewing from observation becomes a small journey, a small adventure.

In the colorful, rhythmic play-work created, the quiet, sweet colors break on sharp materials (wires, glass, etc.) creating an underlying poetry. The materials here take on another dimension with their use in the artwork whose three-dimensionality creates an unexpected play with changing lighting, movement, etc. The microcosm that Petsali creates with the combination of these disparate, “poor” materials evokes a sense of harmony and surprise. The creator herself says what she wants: “to bring an inner but also a real movement as if it were made for a moment of challenge and play, an invitation to the pleasure that makes one forget.”

*From the exhibition catalogue “Where does the color go when it gets dark?” at the Astrolavos Art Galleries, 2005.