"The Vessel of Hope", acrylic on wooden board, Stamastis Skliris, 2020

In this luminous work by Stamatis Skliris, the Church appears as a living vessel—lightly sketched, firmly borne—gliding across the deep waters of the world. The sea remains vast and restless, yet the ship endures—guided by memory, oriented toward promise, and sustained by the unseen breath that fills its sails.