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Through a combination of generative artificial intelligence and digital techniques—including collage, editing, and post-production— Tina Marinaki creates familiar scenes tinged with wonder: a candlelit dinner served on a rowboat at dusk, a glowing Christmas tree moored on a silent sea, a heart-shaped island carpeted with red flowers, and colorful slides winding above the water like aerial sculptures. Inspired by surrealism and cinema as much as by her training as an architect, she plays with scale, decontextualization, and unexpected associations. In her own words, “reality and fiction coexist within the same image,” to “blur the boundaries between the real and the imaginary” and evoke, in response to each image, “a sense of curiosity and wonder.”