“These are two carpet-style woven slippers that my paternal grandmother, Eleni Vasileiadou Agapalidou, brought with her from Vourdouri Pisidias, Asia Minor, when she came to Greece as a refugee in 1922. They were meant for her husband, Damianos Agapalides, who did not survive the arduous March into exile.

She used her carpet-weaving skills to support herself and her four children in Greece. I framed them as a memorial to the grandfather I never met.”

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Lilian (Athens, Greece)