LEMNOS, RITSOS… \n \nGoing to Limnos, by friendship looking for peace of mind or curiosity\u2026 \n \nArriving at Myrina with gull escort, \nCastle is masked by the mist, it is in May. \n \nOn the next day Limnos comes to light, ochre and blue, and offers itself to our sight. \n \nLandscapes of exception, dunes, volcanic mountains, wild profile coasts, fertile plains \u2026 \n \nVillages succeed to villages, Thanos, Kondias, Moudros, Kondopouli. \n \nKondopouli, RITSOS was confined there, in the neighborhood of this village\u2026 \n \nRitsos who “survived” on this island from October 1948 till January 1949. Beauty opposed to horror. \n \nPoems written on cigarette packages, small pads \n \nThen, landscapes do not change, but the way we look at them that is changing. \n \nAnd at this moment, ” certain things acquire an inexplicable weight “, \u00ab Iphig\u00e9nie come back \u00bb (\u0393. \u03a1\u0399\u03a4\u03a3\u039f\u03a3, \u03a0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1, \u03c4\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 \u03a3\u03a4\u2019, \u03ad\u03ba\u03b4. \u039a\u03ad\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2, \u03c3. 117). \n \nAnd at this moment comes the idea of diving in this particular poetic moment. \n \nIllustrating some selected verses because they awake more particularly our sensibility with an image, it is taking the risk of distorting Ristos poetry purity and bringing superficiality or heaviness. \n \nThen, image has not to be at the foreground, but as much as possible be to the service of poetry. \n \nThat is why I have chosen to set up the image behind the handwritten text, because word comes first. \n \nThe photographic subject must be seen through this filter. \nThe text throws its shadow there. This would like to be the evocation of the weight of what Ritsos has lived there. \n \nThe appeal of handwriting comes to add life and expressiveness, and gives the vigour to the text itself. \n \nImagination reinforces accord between text and images. \n \nSimple images, I hope, in order to remain faithful to Ritsos because: \n \n\u00ab Behind simple things I hide, so you have to find me\u00bb \n\u00ab \u03a4\u03bf \u03bd\u03cc\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u00bb, \u03a0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03bd\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 (1946-47).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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