Flying Ships is a graphic novella that combines painting, graphics, and text into a single poetic exploration. The project consists of four paintings, four canvases, two graphic works, and two explanatory diagrams.
The starting point for this series was two natural phenomena I first witnessed in Cyprus: murmurations—the mesmerizing aerial dances of bird flocks—and an optical mirage, where ships appear to float in the air, as the horizon between the sea and sky dissolves. These phenomena became a visual and conceptual bridge between the image of a bird and a ship, their flight, lightness, and freedom.
I searched for new angles to explore this similarity, analyzing shapes, movements, contrasts, and symbolism, discovering multiple parallels between these two poetic figures. All my reflections, analogies, and visual discoveries merged into a single poem, with its lines serving as the titles for the artworks.

Accompanying diagrams of the migration routes of birds and ships