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NOW SHOWING - ABANDONMENT EXHIBIT - ARKOUDI GREECE - 2020
Virtual Exhibit of 7 surreal images of an abondoned house in Arkoudi, Greece.
Details about how and why I did it follow. This entire exhibit IS the work of Art… The Abandonment theme permeates everything; photographs capturing a sense of abandonment in an abandoned house occupied by abandoned cats. Even the surrounding landscape looks desolate and abandoned. The walls of the abandoned house serve as irregular frames to focus on content. Like the cats, the other rooms and the landscape and the other framed photos speak of abandonment. I am fascinated by the human condition as juxtaposed to our environment and especially the ultimate loneliness of it all. We are born alone, we struggle through a life of many hardships and if lucky many joys, but we also die alone. Some of the things I've seen here in the "in between" just called out to be recorded and shared as a way to understand our humanity and purpose.
Since we have lived in this remote tiny beach village, my wife Freda (Afroditi) has been feeding and working on the sterilization of our town's population of cats. About 70 of them.
The location house is an actual abandoned one in Arkoudi, on the highest hill with an ocean view. You can make out the ocean and the island of Zankintos, in the background mist of the first image in the show. We recently learned that the property has changed hands. Consequently a relocation will ultimately be required for the dozen or so cats that we have sheltered here for the winter. They became the opening guests for my would be show. I actually wanted to really hang the show and have an opening party but not owning the property, the weather, the difficulty actually hanging, and finally "covid19" encouraged me to photoshopping in the artwork, many of which I created in the early 70s. I intentionally selected images with multiple meanings throughout. I photographed the empty walls with my iPhone6 and then dropped in the images and created frames around them. I wanted the entire experience to have a high contrast, ethereal surreal quality. And it appears I pulled it off, as only about 20% of the people I sent it to, actually get the virtual exhibit reference.
Alas, yes it would have been nice to have had a real opening party but the cats were the best we could do. Ponder, interpret, but most of all, ENJOY the mystery.
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