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ICUL CTION
C o n t e m p o r a r y

A r t

Thodoris Trampas

R e v i e w

Special Issue

past that comes to the present through the
memories of various events; everything
contributes to the creation of an idea. In
this case, being a child of immigrants
myself, I felt the memories waking up after
seeing the thousands of refugees being

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stacked and dying in their effort to come
to my country, Greece, by sea. This is
something that degrades human
existence and an unprepared Europe, as
the EU has said so itself. The Burned
Earth deals with the bloody issue of