Letoon: An Ionian capital Print

The process of visualizing and making images has been absorbing all my creative energy since my early youth, leaving me without any personal resources needed to care about publicly displaying my photographs. Additionally, until now, almost fourty years after I took the first picture with my father's Argus C3, there is no print of mine hanging on my office or living room walls. This is so, because I have been internalizing all of my pictures at the magic moment of capture, where they capture me - and not vice versa. During my recent photographic excursions, I realized that some latent images appear almost effortlessly on the emulsion of my films as resultants of several extensive internal processes, which have been consciously or unconsciously circumambulating my psyche and its art chambers for years. These processes are slowly coming to a conclusive but yet unspeakable completion and a new audience of viewers formed by chance seems to sense and appreciate them, by deeply relating to these effortless images, in their own unspeakable ways. Thus the decision to showcase them online. Some of them shown here reflect in a concealed or transformed manner many ends of many journeys which - as Juan de Yepes y Álvarez nicely puts it - are bringing "the house (i.e. the soul) to rest" after the tumultous and inevitable dark nights it has experienced. Others are manifesting the quiet celebration of restored hope and others the tranquility of balance in nature or within. Excellent and impressive images but without substance and without them being the result of life-long, mature processes have not found their way to the Saatchi art gallery.