For me curiosities are the things that make me wonder and say “What is this?” or “How does this work?” or simply just stay speechless. Summer is a time for exploration, since I have the opportunity to visit new places. So my 7 curiosities do not have a consistency of scale, since they can be from objects to a landscape, they are although summer findings while I was free to observe whatever was really of a great interest to me.
So, starting from small to large scale:
OBJECTS
1.INVISIBLE SACKS
They look like piles of sacks, but the sacks are no longer there, and the material now looks like stone or marble, originally probably it was sacks of cement.
Alonissos Island, Greece, August 2010
2. CUBE INSTALLATION
An interesting and smart interactive installation outside the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. A cube with mirrors inside, braced on a tree. People were to look through the holes on the sides of the box and their heads ,through the mirror’s reflection, would appear as if they were coming out of the tree. People were very interested in it and were confused at the beginning trying to find out how it works.
Athens, Greece, July 2009
A metallic door between stone walls that leads the way to nowhere!
Sifnos, Greece, July 2010
BUILDINGS
4. OPEN HOUSE
Galfetti’s breathtaking house in Antiparos island. It is a completely narrow house based on three walls on each side, which have voids in between them so the natural air of the island would circulate free in the house. All the spaces inside the house are completely open even the shower and toilet. Clearly it is only a summer house and strictly for a couple!
Paros, Greece, August 2009
5.PHANTOM HOUSE
A house that seems to be cut in half located in the phantom city of Lossaine. The most convincing evidence is the roof, half of it is just missing.
Laussaine, Switzerland, June 2008
LANDSCAPES
6. SCULPTURAL LANDSCAPE
It looks amazing to me how this landscape evolves. This low height walls are supposed to form a terrace cultivation, while they completely adjust to the natural hypsometric curves of the scape creating a spectacular sculptural theme.
Sifnos, Greece, August 2010
7. ENCLOSED LANDSCAPE
I would consider this picture a part of a landscape. The reason for that is that it is a small part of the Chora of Amorgos island which is digged inside the rocky hill of the region. The settlement was built inside the rock because there were often pirates forays so the tried to hide their living space. The Chora is not visible from the sea, even when you approach the shore. Another interesting spot of this island is Hagias Ana’s monastery built totally inside the rock.
Amorgos, Greece, August 2008
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