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The Saatchi Selkie Sprite Satyr :-) Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Algis Kemezys

Canada

Photography, Digital on Paper

Size: 19 W x 18 H x 1 D in

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Male selkies are described as being very handsome in their human form, and having great seductive powers over human women. They typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their life, such as married women waiting for their fishermen husbands. If a woman wishes to make contact with a selkie male, she must shed seven tears into the sea. If a man steals a female selkie's skin she is in his power and is forced to become his wife. Female selkies are said to make excellent wives, but because their true home is the sea, they will often be seen gazing longingly at the ocean. If she finds her skin she will immediately return to her true home, and sometimes to her selkie husband, in the sea. Sometimes, a selkie maiden is taken as a wife by a human man and she has several children by him. In these stories, it is one of her children who discovers her sealskin (often unwitting of its significance) and she soon returns to the sea. The selkie woman usually avoids seeing her human husband again but is sometimes shown visiting her children and playing with them in the waves.

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Photography:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:19 W x 18 H x 1 D in

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Algis Kemezys started taking photographs and filming with super 8 in the mid- sixties after deciding it was far more exciting to him than painting or making landsculpture which he did for a number of years.. His fine-art career began in 1979 with the apprenticeship to the doyenne of photography, the late BERENICE ABBOTT, discoverer of EUGENE ATGET and assistant to MAN RAY. He has had his most important retrospective at the Vilnius Art Gallery, Lithuania (1998), and has been awarded three international awards. Currently he has divided his time between Qubec and the U.S., and has traveled to many countries around the globe. Geomancer, Dowser,Rock Sculptor, Gourmet Chef, World Traveller, Cinematographer, Photographer, Director Algis Kemezys started out in the visual arts as a fine art photographer. He has photographed all over the world. His work has been published and exhibited internationally (New York; Chicago; Canada; Greece; Mexico and India). While photographing the island of Crete (Greece) for a book cover in 2002, he became interested in making a documentary about the islands mimetoliths. Drawing on his previous experience in working with video (Ryerson University; as well as an ongoing sideline in video-art pieces) he has finished two successive documentary films, the first of which (Faces of Myth) played in several festivals to good notices, and the second of which (Mimetoliths) was finished in October 2005 and showed with the Untied Nations Mediterranean. Enviromental Film Festival. Ishia Film festival, Italy and Won peoples choice in the Night Gallery Film Festivals.

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