Lost time is effective and quite tasty, like a perfectly boiled egg.
Endless hours of boredom, loneliness, in a blue room of a small bourgeois and sunny building in Toumba, Thessaloniki.
A single cassette player, video, and cardboard boxes—Music, movies, and improvised games.
Many fantastic friends, with #1 being E.T., the alien.
Growing up, many real friends.
From Chicago to Germany, Thessaloniki, Sarandaporo, Antiparos, Larissa, Athens.
Between Fine Arts and bars. Frequent repetition.
Late nights, music, plenty of alcohol, tables, dancing.
Planned drinks, but also spontaneous ones.
DIY barbecues and delicious appetizers in pastoral landscapes, but also quick snacks on beds.
Metaphysical dreams that felt real.
The first encounter with UFOs at the age of seven, and the first experience with love soon after.
Constant encounters with both of these ever since.
I HATE HARD BOILED EGGS is a limited edition handmade artist book.
Marina started the book in 2020, during the COVID period.
Out of boredom, she opened all the boxes full of things she had moved from Thessaloniki. The empty or barely written journals she found, the analogue photos from the village and holidays, a mountain of mini DV tapes, incomprehensible…
