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"Heroines is modeled on my wife, Eleftheria, who shares similar cultural history to my own, as one side of her family is also from Smyrna. Although her parents are younger than mine and thus lived through less of the terrible decade of the 1940s in Greece, many of the same influences persisted. Her processing and response differed from mine: she developed a forceful way of moving through the world, often closely guarded.

Given her fighter’s personality, and her name—which means 'Liberty'—it was clear that she would be the model for the sculpture honoring three female military leaders in the Greek War of Independence. Even so, the sculpture has an air of wariness or surprise, as if discovering that way of life is not as well adapted to the years beyond the war."