‘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.
When she showed up with a loose dotted dress, black open toe slippers and a flimsy tiara sitting on her head, I could not decide whether she looked fabulous or ridiculous. Applaud or talk sense into her? I struggled. Unfulfilled dreams should be handled with care.
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