This is an update from Greece, from the digital lab at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts. I feel like a ship at sea calling ship-to-shore on the shortwave. An update from Greece, indeed. It has been a tumultuous three months. I have created some amazing work and I am grateful to have been here. Personally and emotionally, however, I have been put through the ringer. I have been called a friend by some, ignored by many, ostracized by a few and even, I think, been thought of as a suspicious character by at least one or two people. Throughout all of this I have made a couple of friends with some of the younger students and lost one as well, someone who I treated decently and cared for deeply. Such is life. I will never get used to that gut-sick feeling of grief and loss. I am not ashamed or upset about how I have behaved: I was honorable and righteous in thought and deed. But I digress…
We are all wrapping up the term: painters are painting their final strokes; digital printers are slipping out the final pieces of Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte, Pearl or Baryta. In the darkroom my commitment to the four portfolios is finished but I still have to print some copies for the models I have worked with. The Ensemble begins it’s short series of 4 performances this week. Next week most of the students begin to leave, some directly back to the USA although some are loitering in Europe for a week or so, myself included. I’ll stay on Paros until the 17th and then head to Athens for about 4 or 5 days in the relative comfort of a hotel in the Plaka area of town. I’ll see some friends, watch some movies and catch some museum exhibits that I have seen before. I will be coming back for a third semester in a few months: more emotional stress, artistic expression and personal angst. What am I thinking?
More to come…
JDCM
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