‘I was 12 when I joined life drawing evening classes at a Cypriot artist’s atelier. It was my first time learning how to draw the proper way, using an easel and holding the charcoal stick away from the paper. I remember being taught to cross-hatch lines when representing cast shadows; a technique that helped me build contrast, layer after layer, leaving the edges undefined through a faded effect. And then, many years later in engineering college, I learnt how to represent a cut section through a similar but more disciplined technique. I am fascinated by how the same gesture could be translated into a three-dimensional object and how it would inhabit a defined volume in a space. What would it be like if, this time, I tried to represent light rather than shadows? How would the edges blur through the crossing lines?’

Coordinates was launched at Euroluce in 2019.