Katerina and Christine:
The DisOrder body of work conveys our struggle to express feelings of anxiety, fear, panic and depression, pain and devastation. In our work, mental illness which is a physical one based on disordered secretions of chemistry in the brain works as an indispensable tool in order to achieve its expression through our digital work. We are at the point where we mute logic and allow the mind to express our imagination, our subconscious mind as a creative catharsis. Exchange of views between artists who experience similar symptoms is where we base the need to continue supporting each other and fight against social exclusion and stigma. We started collaborating and creating digital images in 2011. As we both come from the world of fine arts we realized the similarity in views but also techniques used to manipulate images. This acted as a bond between us and a priceless friendship.
Christine Lentzou Selzer
Katerina Dramitinou
Katerina Dramitinou was born in Crete. At the age of 14, she attended painting lessons and art history at the University of Rethymnon-Crete, until the age of eighteen. She studied fine arts in Athens, and for seven years was under the tutelage of sculptor N. Stefos. She worked for some years at the printing workshop of E Kouvelis. She returned
to Crete in 2007 where she mostly makes mixed media imaging painting. Katerina has been presented internationally in group and solo exhibitions, collaborates with poetry writers on book covers as well as art and medical magazines. She is in permanent
collaboration with artist Christine L Selzer and occasionally with other artists too.
Christine Lentzou Selzer
Christine L Selzer was born in Athens Greece. She received a French education as she attended the French Ursuline School,and got a bachelor degree in Psychology at Deree American College in Athens. She studied Fine Arts at Croydon College UK, and professional make up at Greazepaint School for make up in London UK.
Upon her return to Greece, she took over the family business which had to do with men’s fashion,and at the same time, she was doing projects for musical groups, giving them the whole package, styling,
make up and photography.
After receiving her Certification from the Kundalini Research Institute in New Mexico, she alsobecame a yoga teacher and a Gong player.
Her work has been internationally shown in many venues, and got important awards in photography contests, and shown in online magazines.
She collaborated and showed her work with famous photographer and mentor of hers in photography Linda Troeller. She continues doing collaborations like this one with Katerina Dramitinou as she loves
the collaborativeprocess.
She currently, lives in Washington DC US, with her American husband, making digital images, and teaching yoga.
