Crystal Award | Gallery Ring COLOUR Exhibition | December 2025

I am honored to share that my artwork The Sweetness of Control has been awarded the CRYSTAL AWARD in the COLOUR International Juried Exhibition by Gallery Ring (December 2025).

This distinction celebrates artworks that demonstrate clarity of vision, strong aesthetic cohesion, and compelling use of color. I am deeply grateful for this recognition among so many remarkable international submissions.

About the Awarded Artwork — The Sweetness of Control

The Sweetness of Control is a meditation on elegance as architecture and nostalgia as a quietly commanding force.

Balancing a richly embroidered umbrella adorned with vintage teacups, teapots, and golden spoons, the central figure becomes the embodiment of restraint veiled in ritual. Porcelain and gold hover around her like delicate weapons of etiquette—chosen, placed, and never accidental. Each object functions as both ornament and intention, transforming a familiar moment of tea into a stage of subtle dominance. The refined palette of vintage reds, warm golds, and porcelain blues evokes the ceremonial grace of tradition—where gentleness disguises precision, and tenderness masks control. In this surreal domestic theatre, there is no sugar—only the suggestion of sweetness. Tea time becomes less an indulgence and more a choreography of gesture, grace, and hidden power.

To serve is not to surrender—it is to orchestrate.

Additional Recognitions — COLOUR 2025

Two additional artworks from When Color Knows the Script were honored as Finalists in the same exhibition:

• What Falls in Velvet Silence

• Whispers and Voices

These distinctions further affirm the narrative, symbolic depth, and evolving international presence of the series.

🔹 View the Exhibition

Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet

All images are protected by copyright.

© 2025 Annita Apostolidou Platis. All rights reserved.