"Twenty-four 'artistic dialogues' by Kordis are juxtaposed with poems that are part of the so-called 'recognized,' the official body of Kavafis' poetry," "a distillation of memory that conveys with crystalline clarity the atmosphere of the Alexandrian poet's work," "a journey of [Kordis] into the ancient waters of Kavafis' domain," "the visual dialogue of Kordis with Kavafis' poetry takes the form of an illuminated Byzantine manuscript, with the image functioning as an introductory full-page miniature, as a caption, an artistic annotation, in the style of coding rather than interpretation, of the poetic text," these are just a few examples of excerpts from the texts included in the publication that describe, analyze, embellish, and surround the works in which Giorgos Kordis depicts poems by K. P. Kavafis.

Texts by Evripidis Garantoudis, Nasos Vagena, Dimitris Kosmopoulos, Thanasis Semoglou, respectively. "Kavafis' poems are not read; you hear and feel them, and through this feeling, you find – as much as a person today, deprived of style, can find – a past world, but always present through the timelessness of human desires and passions. [...] I tried to approach his poems and not his poetry in general and vaguely. I stayed with the specific without interpretive intent and wrote the images that came to my mind while reading the poems. I painted the images that the poems brought to me in a simple and straightforward way, as if taking notes on paper; without representational intent, without hinting, in another visual reality. [...] I simply drew with colored designs the images that the poems inspired in me," states G. Kordis.

Giorgos Kordis is a Greek painter, illustrator, author, and university professor. He has organized numerous solo exhibitions from 2009 to 2025 in Greece and abroad, gaining international recognition. He has also published numerous books in Greece, some of which have been translated and published in other languages (English, Serbian, Romanian, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, and French). He has been awarded by the State of South Carolina, the House of Representatives, with a Commendation for his artistic efforts in decorating the Church of the Holy Trinity in Columbia (2015), as well as with the title of President of the "Orthodoxy and Visual Arts" group from IOTA (International Orthodox Theological Union) (2020).