“Everything has its own beauty, it’s full of juices, it blooms. But we need to lift our gaze to see it… The foundation for this interpretation of the world is not just the constitution and the artistic gifts of the painter, but another thing as well, that may be surprising: her deep involvement with Byzantine painting, its principles and its preoccupations. Again, however, that luminous “something” that is inherent in A. Michali’s painting, eludes us.”
Agapi Karakatsani
Byzantinologist, author