The new hydrophilic painting of Irini Iliopoulou appears to have come from very far away. Before History, from a mythical age when the Homeric universe was encircled by an endless ocean. After History, from the Age of Reason, when the Earth like a raft wandered aimlessly over the water. This is what he said to us the wise Thales from Miletus of Asia Minor who was open to the great civilizations of the East and to traveling and whose word made the minds of men change course from myth to reason. He told us that undoubtedly everything was born of water and very probably he told us that everything is water. If in fact Thales truly did say the latter, that everything is water, he does indeed deserve the title that Aristotle bestowed upon him: “leader of philosophers,” the first to perform that miracle of the ancient and contemporary world which is ancient Greek philosophy – the most important and liveliest of world cultural heritage monuments.