They are no beggars. The beggars are asking for alms. These derelict, ruined bodies are asking for nothing. Even the pain of deprivation is absent. Therefore, in these drawings the surroundings are missing – houses, roads, trees. It is not their concern. Their faces are shapeless. They appear like disembodied neglected omissions.

Heaped, remain on the ground. The upright posture indicates motion into perceptible comprehension of the surroundings. What to do with them?

Like dead? And yet, are not. In a drawing, five figures grieving a dead person. What are they grieving for? What do they possess? What have they lost? It is a mystery.

Hara Papatheodorou sketched them in 1972. She did them, sitting in a car, secretly, as not to offend them. Although, if those beings had the luxury to let her free to do her sketching, and then stood in front of their portraits, they would have loved the hands, that revealed themselves.