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Spiros Baras | Syros, Greece | www.spirosbaras.com  www.plastico.gallery
Artist, Founder of Plastico Cafè Gallery

What do you think being creative means?
Being creative is making your life easier rather than doing things being just functional.

How do you include creativity in your life?
By questioning the functionality of the things.

What are your thoughts on how your life has influenced your creative imagination, and how your creative imagination has influenced your life?
My life doesn't influence my creative imagination. My creative imagination might influence my daily tasks.

What, if any, exercises do you do to get into a creative mode?
I believe doing exercises in order to get into a creative mode is wrong. Either you are or not.

How important do you think creativity is in life?
Creativity is very important for our daily life and tasks. Creativity could make our life easier and probably beautiful. Could save time, energy, materials, also. But creativity is not to be confused with art. Being creative doesn't mean you are an artist. These two terms are different although they share elements.

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About
Born and raised in Athens, Spiros Baras started to paint soon after earning his diploma in graphic arts. He first exhibited in 2010 among established artists, in "35 artists exhibit their works on Global Poverty" at Technopolis in Athens. He moved to Syros island in 2013 where he founded and currently owns Plastico cafè-gallery, an alternative meeting place for artists, musicians, writers and friends. Somewhere between Japanese aesthetics and the European tradition, his work becomes one of study, reflection, and homage to the form, the colour and the cultural context of the image.