Empty from it's antique trades but with traces of it's history found on the walls, the old grocery store of Megalochori was breathing fresh air from it's open doors (one on the main street and the other on the alley) on the day i photographed it. I stood amazed on how the magnificent Santorini light, coming from the sky and from a thousand reflections in this labyrinth of buildings that make the village, was flooding the emptyness of the space with a wholeness of existence. If the old store was left this way, it could be exhibited as a work of modern art. But the hands that had opened the doors for this wholeness to shine in, carried it further during the following week, and revived the old "mpakaliko" into a beautifull antique and handcraft shop. The photos were taken in April 2011.
