Drapetomania or Paradise invented
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 15 Οκτωβρίου, 2021 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, photography, trekking | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, artistic nude, for nature in nature, free expression, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, φωτογραφίες, Ικαρία, μονοπάτια, Kavo Papas, nakedness, nude on rocks, photography, rock climbing, wilderness 9 ΣχόλιαAt the end of this summer as I was looking through an admirable group of photos on I/G taken in Ikaria, I found out that they were all tagged #drapetomania, a strange word seemingly coming from Greek. Oh no, it’s not about that old «runaway slave syndrome» devised for obvious reasons by American pseudoscientists in the mid-19 cent. Those bad connotations forgotten today, the word seems to have taken up a new meaning, but still, yes, it remains a ‘syndrome’ alright, though this time a cultural, not a psychological one, to be sure. Just google it up and you will see. Given that, I took the liberty to update the definition by adding a few words. It goes as follows:
Drapetomania: «an overwhelming urge to be free, to find Paradise; if nessecary, to invent it.»
However, the point of this article, my readers, lies not upon terminology but upon photography. Because, in my opinion, the choice of photos I am presenting to you today possess one unique feature: a perfect, subtle balance between the animate and the inanimate, between the organic and the inorganic, and if you wish as well, the finitness of the self and the infiniteness of the cosmos. Having taken part myself in shootings like this in the past, I know from first hand that during the process (as long as the photographer is gifted) there is point when all forms merge into oneness and all feelings disappear.
Looking at certain scenes with half-closed eyes blinded by the merciless glow, you can’t really tell if the human is rock or the rock is human (or animal). It’s a moment of trance and transition, a moment when I can’t help but agree with Albert Camus:
«The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.»
But I have to restaint myself and not let my words shadow the work of the artist. Behold therefore now Elena’s appasionados por la libertad. Look at them as they ‘draptsise’ to another world, neither christian or pagan: the world of crystallic rock surfaces, deep clear water and scorching sunlight. It’s a paradise neither lost, nor won. It’s a paradise invented. 😉
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Two trees
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 7 Νοεμβρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, Personal, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, artistic nude, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, ικαρία, nakedness, natural movements, nude on rocks, outdoors, performance, photography, why-ikaria, wilderness 5 Σχόλια.
Instagram: Elements 1/3, Ikaria, October 31, 2019
Facebook: Elements 1/3, Ikaria, October 31, 2019
See a few more photos of my choice taken in Ikaria
also by Thomas Huisman © all rights reserved
Through that experience, also, I saw that countless sites and sceneries of this island, wild and free by nature and culture, are very suitable for the genre. Beyond that, as it happens with art, the results, when exhibited, get back to the locations as an appraisal to their quality. I have pointed that out in 2014. It feels like my message has reached the proper recipients.
I am glad
Moments of Summer 2019 @ Ikaria
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 18 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, ικαρία, lifestyle, Tourism, Travel, Uncategorized | Tags: adventure, art, august, dance, direct approach, for nature in nature, Gen Z, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, ikaria-in-august, Instagram, Ικαρία μου όλα, ικαρία, μονοπάτια, love in Ikaria, nature, no technical problem, summer 2019, why-ikaria, young, Zillennials 5 Σχόλια..Εκτός ότι πήγα στο Φαράγγι του Ρυάκα κοντά στον Μαγγανίτη και έμεινα στην περιοχή αρκετές μέρες γλυτώνοντας από τη φασαρία του Αυγούστου, δεν έχω άλλο ενδιαφέρον να σας πω δικό μου από το φετινό καλοκαίρι στο νησί. Πάντως, ήταν καλά, απ’ ό,τι έμαθα: ο κόσμος πέρασε καλά, κι οι ντόπιοι και οι ξένοι, όλα εντάξει, «ούτως ειπείν», που έλεγε ένας χαζός καθηγητής μου στο σχολείο
Δεν θα πω τίποτα, αλλά δεν μπορώ και να μείνω και βουβή. Ας γράψω και ας σας δείξω κάτι. Τι θα κάνω; Να, θα βάλω στην άκρη το hype για το οποίο όπως ξέρετε αδιαφορώ και θα διαλέξω να σας δείξω μερικές εξαιρετικές μικροστιγμές. Είναι μόνο πέντε. Όμως για μένα είναι αντιπροσωπευτικές. Αισθηματικές ή καλλιτεχνικές, αστείες ή πικρές, έχουν θάρρος κι αγάπη μέσα τους.Η πρώτη έχει τίτλο:
«Waiting for green light» 😊
.Η δεύτερη είναι βιντεάκι με τίτλο:
«Poseidon’s blessings» 😌
.Η τρίτη είναι ένα βιντεάκι του cha.vla από μια αυτοσχέδια διάσχιση του Φαραγγιού της Χάλαρης με τίτλο:
«Για το στρώμα των χιλίων ευρώ, και για τις απερίσκεπτες αποφάσεις που φτιάχνουν τις καλύτερες ιστορίες.» 😇
.Η τέταρτη είναι μια εικόνα με τίτλο:
«The cure, Ikaria, free camp, summer 2019» 😟
.Και κλείνω με τον αυτοσχέδιο σόλο χορό της Vera Zubatova στο Φαράγγι της Χάλαρης. Τέλειο!
Ο τίτλος είναι:«Improvs this summer 3» 😘
.Όχι! Λάθος! Δεν κλείνω! Είναι ακόμα και αυτό! Τώρα κλείνω. Τώρα είμαι οκ.
..Άντε, και μερικά σχετικά με τα παραπάνω 😛
..Αυτά 👩
.υ.γ. στο κάτω μέρος του ποστ φαίνεται ένα παλιό reblog που κι εγώ δεν ξέρω πως κόλησε εδώ και βαριέμαι να το σβήσω. Αγνοήστε το. Δεν ισχύει.
- Kanga : a group of friends sticking together, like one body·
- (ancient Ikarian word from a story in Nana’s «Ήμεσσαν τρεις ψυχεροί ελόου μας»)
Hello readers! 😀
I haven’t blogged for long because I waited. I waited because it seems something good always comes up at this time of the year. In 2014 it was «The Day we took over the mountains». This year it was… KANGA! My friends Angelos, Xenia, Lefteris, Lina and Giorgos, all of them well-educated and experienced local guides, joined their forces and formed a collective. They are opening an agency of mountain tour guiding in Ikaria very soon. Hurray! 😀
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Soul Powered Works Co
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 21 Οκτωβρίου, 2018 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, music, Personal, scouting, Sea, sport, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, athina-sk., communities, direct approach, downshifting, environment, Flickr, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, human resources, Ikaria, Ikarians, indigenous movement, intervention, χαρά, Κίνηση Πολιτών Ραχών Ικαρίας, Μουσικές Αυλές, Ορειβατικός Πεζοπορικός Σύλλογος Ικαρίας, ικαρία, movement, my world, photography, politics, self-sustained, why-ikaria 8 Σχόλια~
Hello
Few weeks ago, I shared this photo, the “Sturmvogel”, on Flickr. I wanted to share it first of all as a gift to my island, and more particularly, if not more significantly, as a gift to a few special people, regardless if they will ever be able to see it.
I felt like I should share my Sturmvogel to show my gratitude.
My gratitude for all the moments, the actions, the initiatives, the performances, the interventions; for the dancing, the hiking, the photo-shooting, the exploring, the discovering; for the awkward moments, the embarrassments, the failures, the betrayals; for the endless debating, the jokes, the partying and the dancing; for the fight to make this small rock in the sea a better place to live.
Certainly, it’s not much. Certainly, most of it is erratic. But for me, just to know that these things happen, these people exist, makes my life on this island richer, happier and more liberating.
It makes the Sturmvogel put on her dream feathers and wings.
It makes the Sturmvogel run, take off and fly.
Making small changes, giving small examples, adding small touches of ingenuity, ephemeral flares of potential. Understanding the environment, communicating with the landscape. Studying history, culture and local lore. Being creative, sophisti-cated but un-technocratic. Enjoying the views, swimming naked, getting dehydrated, blazing lost trails across nowhere lands. Being small and big. Most of all, being un-materialistic, not funded, not subsided, not sponsored, non-profit.
Powered not by the odious “love for one’s home country” but by that primitive, shapeless yet powerful spirit, hidden in forests and rocks, known by poets and artists as genius loci.
Powered by soul power
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The Sturmvogel is grateful
For the first time in her life she feels she belongs somewhere.
Even harder than that, for the first time in her life she feels attached and committed.
The image above is a preview of an album (set on slideshow) on Flickr containing nearly 800 Soul Powered works co photos!!!
Taken in the course of 11 years, between 2007 and 2018, SPWC in Ikaria is a big baby today!
Finding myself by chance as a witness of the first expression of this gutsy active spirit in 2007, and being the first to blog about it, I felt I should do it again, more loudly. Because this time we have the whole thing. And because this time I am not a tourist anymore. I am a permanent resident, and as a Sturmvogel in this spirit I fly; as a Sturmvogel in this spirit I nest.
Soul Powered Works forever!
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related pages / soul power generators ~
Επιστροφή στον αγκαθότοπο
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 5 Οκτωβρίου, 2014 Filed under: aegean, Ikaria, ικαρία, lifestyle, Personal, trekking | Tags: Aegean, agrimi, art, bites-you, briar-rose, Calicotome villosa, constructive vice, Esor RairB, fairy-tale, fantasy, Greece, Ikaria, τσιμπάει, ασπάλαθοι, my world, needlework, performance, profile, shinnery girl, stings-you, Tale of the Thorns, thorn-lands, thorns, wilderness 4 Σχόλια.
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surrealist alienation
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Relaτed entry :
Παραδοσιακό Σπίτι στο Χωριό (# ανακαινισμένος αχυρώνας)
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 1 Μαΐου, 2012 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, Tourism, Travel, Uncategorized | Tags: Aegean, AirBnB, angelos, architecture, art, artful, drawings, gardens, Greece, guesthouse, hiking, house, Ikaria, ikaria-1974-5, παραδοσιακή αρχιτεκτονική, ρύμη, φιλοξενία, ικαρία, land, landscapes, lane, music, no technical problem, old things, ovens, post traditional, property, refuge, rental, reservoirs, stonewalls, summer, tools, traditional, village 7 Σχόλια.
The Greek Slave
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 13 Μαρτίου, 2012 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, Personal, wild humor | Tags: Aegean Sea, agrimi, art, artful, fairy-tale, fantasy, for-me, freedom, greek independence, history, Ikaria, παραμύθι, ικαρία, naked, paintings, politics, spring, trilogy 3 Σχόλια..
Two weeks already as a self deportee in a windy and cold Ikaria and I am looking through Eleni’s art books as I have done before. I found «THE GREEK SLAVE» by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The genre is neoclassicism, sub-genre ‘orientalism’, between cartoon and photography and trop bourgeois if you ask my opinion as a whole, but the Slave captured me. I think she makes an exception. It’s not another Ancient Greece nude, by the way. She a captive in the War of Greek Independence and she is being sold in the markets of Egypt. The painting is unfinished and this adds to the charm. Maybe in the end she managed to escape?
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So let this be the third part the
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To make four, a satyric drama, anybody?
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The New Savages
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 13 Μαΐου, 2011 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, Personal, Sea | Tags: Aegean, agrimi, art, artful, beach, campers, camping, Chalares, farangi mou, for-me, free camping, free expression, Greece, hippies, human resources, Ikaria, ikaria-in-images, imagenes, images, Χάλαρη, ικαρία, mountain-gorge, nas, paintings, simply, water 2 Σχόλια- .
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.Simply better than the Rainbow peopleThis post is a sequel of «Sliding Ikarian Impressions»There is no money but indeed. art flourishes in times of crisis.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •Jan/Feb 2011 by Paul Lewis (all rights reserved)
Note: Being connected to Paul in Flickr, again one of my photos inspired one of his paintings.
I'm proud again!
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- Thursday May 13, 2011
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