crossroads
… life is a journey … only one? … or many? … journeys then, new roads … towards every direction and every time … for any reason and on any occasion … with every aim and every purpose … with such dynamics, it is inevitable that crossroads would be born … crossroads of times and cultures … feelings and experiences … persons and personages … crossroads … a harmonious meeting of ways? … or a struggle between opposing currents? … whatever the reason, what matters is that crossroads are a point of tension … tension … a term of physics … of the universe … “tension defines the flow of energy through a surface at a particular time” … flow of energy then … what a beautiful picture … with one simple mathematical equation … crossroads equal the flow of energy … I look at my crossroads … I think of games of the universe … I smile … an ancestral flow of energy … and I, a conduct once again … at first I began documenting a part of introspective crossroads … experiencing the magic of creation … through lots of light … and along the way, the light was thrown in the shadow of pain … 6 simultaneous terror attacks … 6 simultaneous attacks on a vibrant society at a time of enjoyment! … 6 simultaneous morbid attacks on an invisible enemy … that of reason, culture, and the exaltation that only faith, art and the good life can offer … is that what they want to condemn? … established rights, won by the Old Continent with so much toil and blood, so many conflicts and losses … but the conclusion of modern history will not be disproved! … so many people, so many civilizations, so many languages, views and religions and beliefs – it is no accident that they were able to coexist within a geographical space … they believe it because they lived it … and every third party that wishes to infiltrate this great Europe will have to accept its terms and assertions … and first of all that of love, and then that of respect! … yes, I love and respect … I bow down to the otherness of the person next to me and I embrace it … I embrace the “cross” that each of us is carrying … our faith, Christianity, and our mores are suffering … the cross, as a symbol, is under attack … trapped … in pain … suffering … it is transubstantiated … but in the end it is saved … through the exaltation born out of art, there is only the hope of redemption … fortunate are they who are touched by art … fortunate and eternal … and so we will meet in eternity … all the generations that built faith, values and ideals … that fought and conversed stoically … that listened and crossed views … the generations which, for over a century, sowed so that we may reap today, for a better future … all four generations will join together in dance … the dance of redemption and justice … and a diffused and sincere light will support the vivid and playful tempo of a family story … which was destined to have a topical, universal theme … crossroads … tension … the flow of energy through a space at a particular time … what we are living now!
Important Notice:
Right after the multiple terrorist attacks in the center of Paris on the 13th November of 2015, the collection “crossroads” changed and became the way it looks today. The original structure of it around the 12 Months of the Year, mutated into the 12 Apostles and the Sufferings of the Cross. The graphic depiction of the word PARIS with the exact date of the attacks -11.13.15 according to the American way of writing the date- simply confirms the inevitableness of this historical moment.