“SAMI’S VIEW”:
2014: IONION CENTRE FOR ART AND CULTURE; KEFALONIA // ITHAKA, GREECE
In a residency at the Ionion Center for Art and Culture in Kefalonia, Greece, this work investigates "deconstructing the pilgrimage;" exploring a journey through the notion of poiesis.
Through a series of mishaps at the residency program, ending up placed in a village called Sami, and a guesthouse called Sami’s View, spending 33 days walking the periphery of Sami, the work explores mystical states of poiesis and how this experience locates us in understanding the image of the self in its multiple reflections.
Walking along the edge of Kefalonia, gazing at Ithaca for 33 days, and on the final 7 days, crossing over to Ithaca and walking the island, encountering whirling dervish windmills, a white donkey, a sunken ship called Samina, some sages and wise men, and the blind mystic poet dervish, Homer.
The text “Sami’s View” and the installation “The Looking Glass” developed from this research.
CONNECTED WORKS:
POEtry: SAMI’S VIEW
INSTALLATION: THE LOOKING GLASS