Samios using the materials of the old shoe store remembers with respect an ancient art. Nothing melodramatic about it. As an antidote to nostalgia, he proposes an aesthetic middle ground. The high-heeled fetish has been mutated. It has become a geographic fetish. Samios knows how to handle modern narrative techniques. His work is today. His well-known conquered script with the long, obtuse figures here is refreshed significantly to escape the risk of standardization. The solutions he chooses are justified. The iconography balances between dream and eternity, its desire and its plastic performance. The tremendous prelude can be satisfied. And hope ... ANTIDOTE OF NOSTALGIA PAVLOS SAMIOS