day 5

narrow streets that get narrower when you look up


"Change in the conventional economic structural variables may be accounted for in terms of lifestyle change - and, conversely, patterns of daily life may be explained in terms of economic structure...
All this may sound very academic and far removed from matters of day-to-day economic management. But it has, on the contrary, the most practical of implications. It provides the necessary basis for understanding the process of the emergence of post-industrial societies, a picture of socio-economic change..."

Jonathan Gershuny (Changing Times: Change in the Conditions of Life)


So you see, the society that produced this kind of living does no longer exist. I am thrilled to be walking around and inside these imprints on present time, just like I would have been if I visited an archaeological site.

day 4

time for coffee
time for friends


ps. I feel the urge to say : aestheticism is not a prime interest of mine. I love beauty when I can find it. But there is always meaning and the meaning is, as we often say, socially constructed. So, there it is. A society (or more than one actually) inside each picture. Striving into cultural transmissions, in time and space.

[wind ]

Ένα βουναλάκι αγριολούλουδα, το ίδιο αναλλοίωτα κι αμάραντα όσο μέσα στη σκέψη μας, τρέμει κάθε φορά που καταφέρνουμε να γίνουμε αέρας. Και να σκεφτεί κανένας ότι, με την προϋπόθεση να το θελήσουμε όλοι, μ π ο ρ ο ύ μ ε. Όπως μπορούμε να επεκταθούμε σε όλα τ' απέραντα τετραγωνικά της ηθικής που απλώνονται πέραν από ένα και αποτρόπαιο φευ, όπου μας έχει καθηλώσει μια πανάρχαια βλακεία, στην ανθεκτικότητά της πανίσχυρη.

Οδυσσέας Ελύτης (Ο μικρός ναυτίλος: ΧΧ)
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A little mountain of wild flowers, as unchangeable and untouchable by time as they are in our thoughts, trembles each time we manage to become wind. And, think about that, if we all want it, we c a n [...]

Odysseas Elytis (free translation by me)

day 3

Χωρίς αμφιβολία υπάρχει για τον καθέναν από εμάς κι από μια ξεχωριστή, αναντικατάστατη αίσθηση που αν δεν την βρει να την απομονώσει εγκαίρως και να συζήσει αργότερα μαζί της, έτσι που ναν τη γεμίσει πράξεις ορατές, πάει χαμένος.

Οδυσσέας Ελύτης (Ο μικρός ναυτίλος: IX)

[changing between the days]

- I want to learn, I want to learn. Am I to learn? he asked.



- I want to grow bigger, I want to get better..
He complained.


[Pictures of oneself]

day 2

Shifting, provoking central rooms over the street. Wood and light walls and natural light through many windows.


ps. respectful towards the representation of the mind of others; there are rules in thinking as in building the dwelling for a newborn.

day 1 : colours in Xanthi

take a look. Old walls, coloured by brushes and time.



ps. '' We do not see ourselves as consciously fitting in with patterns of conduct established historically and structurally, which enable and constrain personal behaviour in various but determinate ways''. (Chris Rojek, Leisure Theory)

august moon

once again
the mirror for our lives
the counter of our hands and eyes

summer birthday

In the 30 years of life I now count, I've been retaining the pulse of a wakening in and out of a dear and also threatening dream.



In the meanwhile, I celebrate and whisper the song of breaking into silent and internal tears.



ps. listen: Καλοκαίρι (Summer)

Exactly one year after we visited Finland. This calls for a celebration!

in the garden

There are so much to find out there. In the surprise of being. Keeping working and creating allover. Miracles.



We are doomed to be creative, Ramfos said.

at grandma's

food is almost ready
we might eat out, in the garden

after a pale afternoon