HELEPOLIS
UNTITLED I & II, 200 x 140 x 20mm each, acrylics, oils, wax and mixed media on prepared wood, 2022
HELEPOLIS SERIES
Helepolis – taker of cities
an ancient Greek siege engine consisting of a wheeled tower containing machines for throwing stones and spears
Helepolis (lit. Taker of Cities) was an ancient siege engine invented by Demetrius I of Macedon and constructed by Epimachus of Athens for the unsuccessful siege of Rhodes, based on an earlier, less massive design used against Salamis (305–304 BC). Descriptions of it were written by Dioeclides of Abdera, Vitruvius, Plutarch, and in the Athenaeus Mechanicus. If their numbers are accurate, it was the biggest and most powerful siege tower ever erected.
The series contemplates metaphoric resistance machines to affront the reality of over-building in the islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino.
SENTINEL, 1800 x 900 x 30mm, mixed media on canvas, 2023
TALOS, 1950 x 1130 x 40mm, mixed media on canvas, 2023