Sea pleasures and pains

Dimitris Mich. Gelagotis was born in August 1956 in Argennos, a small village in northern Lesbos. Since he was a child, he tried with a pencil to capture on paper everything beautiful he saw. Since then he has not stopped painting, always amateurishly, without any education.

At the age of twelve, he left the island for Athens, where he worked non-stop, alongside school, helping his family. He decided to attend the School of Merchant Mariners, since there were financial needs and the profession was lucrative. He started writing on ships out of necessity, to entertain his fears, anxieties and joys. Like a game, he put many of the writings of the moment in bottles and traveled with them. When, at the age of thirty, he decided to leave the naval profession, many of his texts were already gathered in a large suitcase. Today he is engaged in the trade of motorcycles.