A minute with … Xenia Zorpidou, visual artist and art teacher

Where do you live and with whom?
I Live in Limassol with my partner and my fur baby.

What did you have for breakfast?
Black coffee and oats with peanut butter. Coffee always comes first!

Describe your perfect day
My perfect day is ideally a sunny summer day spent by the beach until the sun goes down, spent with my loved ones and enjoying life as it is at the moment.

Best book ever read? Why?
To have or to be? by Erich Fromm because it affected my perception on reality and strongly influenced my artistic work.

Best childhood memory?
Visiting my grandparents abroad in the summer.

What is always in your fridge?
Yoghurt and chocolate of course!

What music are you listening to in the car at the moment?
I can listen to anything depending on my mood besides electronic music. I can’t stand the repetitive sound of it.

What’s your spirit animal? And why?
Never thought about it to be honest but it should be an animal that lives near the water, I guess.

What are you most proud of?
I’m mostly proud of managing to do what I love for a living and for the people I choose to have around me.

What movie scene has really stayed with you? And why
The ending scene of the Shutter Island’. I love the fact that there are more than one sides to the story and it allows you to put the pieces together to decide what makes more sense. It’s a movie that you should see more than once in your life.

If you could pick anyone at all (alive or dead) to go out for the evening with, who would it be?
That would be my loving grandfather who passed away a few years ago.

If you could time travel when/where would you go?
I would want to go to the past and experience some happy memories again.

What is your greatest fear?
My loved ones not being healthy or the loss of them.

What would you say to your 18-year-old self?
To believe and trust myself more.

Name the one thing that would stop you dating someone
Narcissism and endless talking about themselves.

If the world is ending in 24 hours what would you do?
I would hang out with my friends and family and tell them how grateful I am for each and every one of them.