Delivering Views #35 "The Moon Carved Sea" by Zoe Krylova

The ongoing project “Delivering Views - Delivering Text” of the Cultural Centre Phaneromenis 70 is based on the exchange of images and texts focused on Nicosia and Cyprus. In recent years, the center has been collecting images and texts “donated” by travelers to Cyprus, which help reinterpret our home country through an “outsider's gaze". The archive is periodically delivered to curators, intellectuals or artists, who respond to the collection with exhibitions, essays and publications. Our ambition is to stimulate the senses, emotions and thought through the circulation of images and texts, so as to start a new conversation on things we often miss or do not register. Zoe Krylova’s encounter with Kyriaki Costa during her most recent visit to Nicosia became the spark for the creation of “The Moon Carved Sea”, which now forms part of the Delivering Views – Delivering Texts publication series of the Phaneromenis 70 Cultural Foundation. Immersing herself in her own world and attuning to the sounds of the present, she offers a work that embodies the very elements defining our time and place. Gathering fragments of memory, emotion, and heritage, she weaves them together with the awareness of a world in constant crisis. The poems and photographs become instruments for reading history, as well as vehicles of personal and collective remembrance, revealing the subtle interplay between place, identity, and poetic expression.