The study of Lampros Kamberidis on Perisi Ieremiadis is a work of healing for our times. Not modern introspection, but healing—the care and mending of the wounds that sever our relationships with others. This healing is physical, visceral, filled with color and darkness. The death of his friend, to whom he dedicated his last creative energies by painting variations of the dragon-slayer Saint George on his magnificent horse, ignites in Kamberidis a dazzling flow of associations, a delicate interconnection that links pagan and Christian, German and Greek, spiritual heroes and evil monsters. Kamberidis makes us all part of this interconnection, because it is precisely through the awareness of our interdependence that healing can begin. Through the impatient and enchanting movements of his imagination, Kamberidis shows the reading public how to reconnect the pieces of a fragmented world. The author of this book attempts to demonstrate that human existence cannot be understood solely by the laws governing physical life. The human face emerges from the struggle with the forces that lurk to undermine human freedom. What ultimately surfaces is the free man, endowed with a unique and distinct soul, a singular existence whose reality is not due to biological roots but to a destiny pointing towards eternity. Often, this encounter takes the form of artistic creation, as in the case of Perisi Ieremiadis, the painter whose struggle with the evil of illness and the numerous depictions of Saint George inspired Lampros Kamberidis to create this work "towards a life of the Saint for our times."