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The work "Small Shipyard" belongs to the period when Alex Mylonas was working with thin slabs of white marble, presenting compositions that are distinguished for their geometric simplicity and rigour. She feels that marble - and more specifically the marble she chooses, coming from the quarries of Dionysos, outside Athens, a material inextricably linked to art in the Attic land - expresses her perfectly, since she appreciates that it is a material that is unadorned, alive and shining, which has its own independence and is not suited to complex shapes that would hide its beauty. The shapes retain their ancestral symbolic meaning, while the title, which emerges on completion of the work, refers to a recognisable image. A drawing/study of 1983 also survives for the work "Small Shipyard", which the artist titled "Ships-First Study".