The publishers Levant selected a painting of mine from the MO series for their publication of the epic poem ‘Tanaïs’. The MO series were all based on flood damaged photos and my memories of day to day life and dreams between 2024-25. This drawing was based on the memory of a dream about a man on stilts in shallow water.
‘Tanaïs’ was written by the renowned greek poet Iossif Ventura and is considered one of the most important literary works about the Holocaust.
The poem is homage to the hundreds of souls who drowned when their cargo ship SS Tanaïs was torpedoed by the british in June 1944. It sank in under a minute with nearly all lives aboard, including including hundreds of deported Cretan Jews and Christians as well as Italian PoWs.

Images:
01 – The book ‘Tanaïs’
02 – The original painting from the MO series