Art: Nikolas Karathanasis
I SAW A KITTEN DEAD ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON
I saw a kitten
dead on Tuesday afternoon,
lying in the shade
of the bright green trees
in the corner by the bridge
and the river, where
the garbage trucks come
every week, eyes closed, fur wet,
leg twisted, chin red,
and I knew it was
the same kitten I had seen
down the road before,
playing under a
hedge with another kitten
with three other cats,
a helpless victim
now of the heavy rainfall
this month in July,
and the day after,
in the place where it had been,
was an empty space
upon which I gazed,
recollecting the still scene
of so small a life
nature took away,
a memorial of thought
housed within me, where
I see a kitten
dead on Tuesday afternoon,
lying in the shade.
In the artist’s words:
I am Nikolas Karathanasis, living in Athens, Greece. My introduction to photography began several years ago. I associate my work with black and white film through experiment and research; the smell of chemicals, the joy & excitement of composition. Within the past years, I work with digital photography. I have participated in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Facts, pictures of everyday life, ideas, people and their passions, whatever moves in the space of exaggeration. All this is inspirational to me. Photography, as I see it, means communication with the world and this is my motivation. I use many photographic techniques and skills to frame daily scenes and to manipulate the light so to build a bridge of communication with people, in a subtle way. This becomes a vessel for sharing ideas, thoughts and feelings. In so, we are extracted from loneliness, and create a humane environment. New perspectives for the mind to walk on, think, wonder.
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