ΑΣ ΦΡΟΝΤΙΖΑΝ/To Have Taken the Trouble

C.P. Cavafy, 1930

ISBN: 978-960-504-056-7

Artwork: Nikolas Arvanitis

Nikolas Arvanitis

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Ice cream

College of Building and Printing, Glasgow.

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L’EST was a artist’s run project space in Dalston which ran from 2004-2008. It was a collaboration between Nikolas Arvanitis, Theo Michael and Alex Zika

First voice: Now he has seen me. He is walking into my world with his innocent eyes

He is looking straight into my hiding-place.

Second voice: Good morning!

I did not expect to meet anybody up here. You surely don’t live hereabouts.

First voice: Indeed I do. I have always lived in this dale.

Second voice: Then perhaps you can help me. I too used to live in this dale but farther down. 

I left fifty years ago as a boy of ten. I went far away into another country. Today for the first time I have come back. I find everything changed.

First voice: Oh yes: it has changed a lot in that long time.

Second voice: It is partly an illusion

or was an illusion…

Herbert Read 1955

muse 2007

Nikolas Arvanitis

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