“A sunset of the city” Project / Creative Direction, Art Direction and Design for énδon / Location: Thessaloniki - Greece / Photographer: @kostas_sapi

Each piece corresponds to one or more lines of the poem.

Inspired by the poem ‘A Sunset of the City’ by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), one of the most influential and highly regarded 20th century American poets. Brooks won many awards and was the first Black American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her poem “A Sunset of the City” was published as a part of her fourth poetry collection, The Bean Eaters, in 1960.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,

Are gone from the house.

My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite   

And night is night.

It is a real chill out,

The genuine thing.

I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer   

Because sun stays and birds continue to sing. 

It is summer-gone that I see, it is summer-gone.   

The sweet flowers indrying and dying down,

The grasses forgetting their blaze and consenting to brown.

It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes.   

I am aware there is winter to heed.   

There is no warm house

That is fitted with my need.

I am cold in this cold house this house

Whose washed echoes are tremulous down lost halls.

I am a woman, and dusty, standing among new affairs.   

I am a woman who hurries through her prayers.

Tin intimations of a quiet core to be my   

Desert and my dear relief

Come: there shall be such islanding from grief,   

And small communion with the master shore.   

Twang they. And I incline this ear to tin,   

Consult a dual dilemma. Whether to dry   

In humming pallor or to leap and die.

Somebody muffed it? Somebody wanted to joke.

“Made in Mykonos” Project / Creative Direction, Art Direction and Design for énδon / Location: Thessaloniki - Greece / Photographer: @kostas_sapi

Conceived in the mind of the designer during his long stay on the island of Mykonos. Inspired by the beauty, lifestyle, and energy of the island. Mykonos is a Greek island part of the Cyclades complex. Note: All pieces from this project were shared across Mykonos, reaching both residents and travellers.