The series "By the Sea" emerges as a poetic reflection on the symbolic language of human existence, a visual narrative that transforms the coastal landscape into an interior landscape, and each of Zannetos paintings into a carrier of deeper existential truths where elements resonate like notes of a perfectly structured composition and an allegorical symphony. The period when the artist lived in a house by the sea reveals a creator deeply preoccupied with the theme of "the existential encounter between the inner and outer world." His contemplation of the seascape seems to have offered him a mirror for introspection, where the rhythmic meeting of water with shore symbolically reflected the boundaries between the conscious self and deeper, more mysterious psychological currents. In the works, the same figure always returns: an almost anonymous figure who seems to carry the weight of modern loneliness and the endless search for meaning. It is an enigmatic character who stubbornly maintains his urban elegance even before the vastness of the shore, as if guarding the fragile balance of existence against infinite fluidity, maintaining his position in the frame like a silent claim to meaning in a constantly transforming world. The horizontal division between sky, sea, and land creates a structured, theatrical space where this enigmatic character enacts the drama of waiting, encounter, and observation. In this theatrical space, the artist chooses to introduce several enigmatic beings as allegorical symbols, aiming to open a window into his psychic landscape where memory, imagination, and reality merge. It is a fluid and indeterminate world, where each element carries layers of personal symbolism that are difficult to interpret. This opacity challenges the viewer to abandon the search for specific meanings and to immerse themselves in the experience of the absurd, the uncanny, the subconscious. A camel that emerges like a dream from a distant desert, bringing with it the echo of journeys to foreign lands, memories of oriental horizons and endurance against desert vastness, as if patiently waiting for the solitary man to travel with it again. In another work, the mysterious figure holds a newspaper with the illusion that letters can grant him control over mystery and the indeterminate. A white horse, eternal symbol of journey and liberation, stands there, light and silent, like a living reminder that some things don't want to be understood—they simply exist, in a language that precedes words. We encounter the solitary man dressed in a formal dark suit and hat again in another work, standing motionless and hesitant before a boat with open sails. Between them, a rooster that stands with puffed chest, crowing with the cry that chases away darkness, yet carries in its blood the destined sacrifice, the ritual debt to Asclepius for the spiritual health that was granted—a dual and paradoxical symbol before the dilemma of departure toward the unknown. The nautical images and sailing vessels that hover on the horizon evoke feelings of freedom and distance, perhaps reflecting the artist's own sense of being simultaneously rooted and swept away