Reading the Lines

‘The Semi-Fictional Character of the Day’ is a joint, one-month project by Louiza Mallouri and Constantinos Xenofontos. Constantinos will be sketching a semi-fictional figure every day, and Louiza will be writing an accompanying storyline, as inspired by that character. The aim of this project is to explore the way two semiotic systems, the visual and the linguistic, interact and complement each other to tell a story.

An unexpected message had waited on his voicemail. Back in the glory days he would get death threats on a regular basis. In fact, he would eagerly anticipate them daily and wear them like a badge of honour. He was on fire during those days: always suited up and equipped with skepticism and curiosity, he would leave the office and wouldn’t return without a front-page worthy story. Back then, he would write about things that mattered, running exposés which brought down politicians and called out profiteering companies. He wondered what reason anyone had to threaten him now.

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‘The Semi-Fictional Character of the Day’ is a joint, one-month project by Louiza Mallouri and Constantinos Xenofontos. Constantinos will be sketching a semi-fictional figure every day, and Louiza will be writing an accompanying storyline, as inspired by that character. The aim of this project is to explore the way two semiotic systems, the visual and the linguistic, interact and complement each other to tell a story.

She would always complain. And she would complain about everything: her job, her boyfriends, the traffic, her parents, the weather, her childhood, people being mean to her, people being too nice to her. She was a walking sob story, a bomb of negativity about to explode.

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‘The Semi-Fictional Character of the Day’ is a joint, one-month project by Louiza Mallouri and Constantinos Xenofontos. Constantinos will be sketching a semi-fictional figure every day, and Louiza will be writing an accompanying storyline, as inspired by that character. The aim of this project is to explore the way two semiotic systems, the visual and the linguistic, interact and complement each other to tell a story.

She stepped on the stage barefoot, wearing a long flowing dress, her silver hair in an updo. She looked regally beautiful. When she had announced her retirement back in September, her last scheduled plays sold out in hours. Tonight was her last performance. Many of her contemporaries and artists she admired wanted to die onstage, whilst playing. Not her. She loved art too much to allow her mortality to intervene. She didn’t just perform a role, she became it.  No lover, child, life tragedy, illness could mar her craft or interrupt a character, not even death. It was all magic. And tonight was no different.

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