listening over drinks to miani’s stories about the islands in the late 60’s - copy

a quiet smile sliding across her face, listening to peter walker in the afternoon in argoilis

two afternoons near mykines, mid summer

‘seven years have passed. clytemnastra and aegithus have ruled argos firmly, but have squandered the treasure that agamemnon brought home from troy’

a drawing remembering a visually lush week in athens

the late afternoon sea through an open window. from sappho’s bed while staying on syros

after visiting a church in the hills above mandraki bay, with a large black dog siting outside

drawing after photographs of ruthie striemel’s 1928, one week production ‘mariamne and the house of herod’. on kibbutz kfar lahazor

sappho, errana and gyrinna on syros to hang with friends

scene two, first act of appollo and daphne performed in the magikkunst theater, prague, 1932

sappho and princess thiestes getting lost in their stories on mykonos

telemachus on the road looking for his father

an evening, after diomenia and thiestes spent a day wandering hydra and watching the sea

the dreams of agamemnon and cassandra after landing near imia

drawings from the stills of jaques froinard’s ‘le son des ailes de papilion’ recently remastered film about Debussy

sappho and a lover visting izmir

callidice and odysseus in the castle at thesprotia before he left for war with the brygians

marcelle and giesette staying near the sea

celestine when she was 17 and waiting for her father to return from troy

visiting a philatelist many years ago near antibes and also meeting her dogs

the classical world

1974, when martine was still sky diving at night near dover

drawings after the sets from yorgos kassaliki’s 1954 film, ‘days and nights on the pelopanese’

drawing for a wip related to a sheri kasminski opera, telemachus and the birth of desire

monique and gaston on a patio in hydra feeling their way into the afternoon