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I would define my music as very interesting. I'm an innovator in many ways. My songs are not just songs and they are different from others at least in form. Likewise, my compositions are closer to classical music and are different in form as well. I.e. what comes out of my hands and my head is not subject to existing forms. I use them, but I always try to run away from the restrictions. Music is mathematics basically. But even the idea of ​​a marked structure makes me nervous. At the beginning, I could not help but broke the scheme. Now, I am doing it on purpose. I do not like square and triangular shapes. I am a fan of the circle and the sphere. Great future is waiting for me in music but it is not my strongest period at present. I learned to bide my times.

Basically, the accumulation of knowledge, the lifestyle, the influence of social and family environment make the things happen for me. I was born in a family and social environment, which in the past century, even during a different social system, was leading a bohemian life, only among very prominent spiritual persons in Bulgaria. Then the world began to open for them. So, I got this whole basket of gifts with which I am gifted at a very early age. This is something I realized lately. I spent many years scattering the things I was given.

Then, there is education they gave me. I still cannot find a person with such a solid education in the field of arts. Later, life sent me to another school - in Rome. I not only feel the best there but five years were not enough to take the culture and what was amassed for centuries there. I had the chance of being among of cultural figures - representatives of various arts and I sucked in information and knowledge.

Then I came to Athens. I studied Greek the first year, which seemed difficult at the beginning. But I graduated with honours and got a diploma from the School of Modern Greek at the University of Thessaloniki.

Vida and jewels

I found a warm, quiet and peaceful place here, where nobody knows me, nor do they want to know me. Then, a teacher organized a jewellery course in the suburb where I live. I was making jewels of baked dough like a schoolgirl. At first, I painted them with my father’s watercolours but then I decided that oil paints would be more suitable. In general, forms have always interested me. I participated in exhibitions with small wooden coloured sculptures and stones. Later, I made sculptures too. Everything that involves the brain and the hands attracts me a lot.

So, when I started the course, I knew what I was going to do and I needed materials: silver and stones. I knew how to work with metal and during the third lesson, I suggested to my friend, the jeweller, to become his apprenticeship for a fee. He laughed at me but I told him that the models were in my head, that I would not draw them because someone could steal them and that I had to learn working with the tools. He agreed and I became his apprenticeship just like that. Vassilis taught me very quickly. I bought tools and now I have a room in his studio, where I make unique designs. I do not draw them. They are in my head and I see them as sculptures. I choose beautiful stones and silver. I started selling them to friends. I do not advertise them and in fact, the women or their husbands, who have seen my works somewhere, come and find me alone. Furthermore, my jewels are charged with a lot of positive energy according to the women who wear and do not take off my jewels. I sign my jewels with my name and the very meaning of the word "Vida" on an object means life.

I do not make a leaving on it but I'm not cheap either, because the jewels are works of art.

The other thing that took me to jewellery was my acquaintance with Umberto Mastroianni - the greatest Italian sculptor - futurist and founder of this movement. He gave me two pairs of earrings and a ring. I have only the ring now and it is very precious to me. Even then, in the period between 1995 and 2000, I told myself that I would do such things one day.

Vida and fine art