The concrete bunker-like block has been sitting in the valley of the river of Eressos for years. It seemed as if, after it served its purpose as a ramp for loading trucks during the construction of the river dam that noone would be interested to leave the dirt road in order to come close to it. Then, at this April i learned that Alex, the graffiti artist who lives in Eressos used it as a canvas. I was amased to see it when i got there with good friend Margarita, and surprised to see its suroundings. Alex sprayed a portrait of an ancient God or young man. He placed the portrait on his "canvas" in a very interesting way. Made me think about the relationship between our ancient and our modern culture. And when i move, changing the angle of my view it's like i'm on a different perspective of how the portraits eyes view me. The very strange and confusing thing was that the area was surrounded by waste and debris. Right from the concrete block's base starts a line of wooden piles, thrown apart from some construction. A few meters away, somebody unloaded a few trucks of soil and items that apparently came from to an old house. Books, furniture, toys and other stuff. I've been in this place before, last year nothing of that were there, the debris and garbage or the graffiti. The first thing that came to me was the question: could it be that nobody cared about this place, nobody even perceived it as visible, until an artist came and did something that made it visible, so that somebody else said "hey, that's a good place to unload my garbage"? And then it came to me, what if the artist himself, after completing the graffiti, still felt unfulfilled and wanted to do something more that would transcend the mere graffiti and comment on our modern civilisation? (Hmmm, ouaou). Finally i've come to the conclusion that i don't want to know wich of the two is the case. I prefer to stay in this realm of uncertainty about this issue. After all from there is where ideas and art are coming from.
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