Friday, July 30, 2010

Minimalist landscape


so there was this group of artists in i think the 70s who advocated for minimalist landscapes, use of only 2 landscape elements in a photo...I've cheated, 3 landscape elements.
oh...by the way, city dwellers, this is the view from my bedroom window

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Prastio-Mesorotsos


the landscape of the hinterlands


everything was on a massive scale (there's a plastic chair in this picture)


someone had entertained zirself by stacking up hard to stack stones


looong trenches


threshing floor

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Bye Cyprus

sketchiness in pafos

shadows?

turn of century pafos

cowboy boot?

a peek into a shop window
the unused pafos mosque minaret
I woke up the first morning to see this...

Marina


to get at the resin
sorry, the name of this dam, Mavro... was too long for me to remember


Kouri stadium

Kissonerga-Mosfilia, original house and reconstruction

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

the (experimental) Archaeological life


you can now clearly see the house from the road!



seaweed as our binder



our walk


all our water(and we used a lot of it) had to be trucked


the wall


Action shot of Rachel and Caroline gluing together the pot Andreas found


the 3rd ever neolithic shaft straightener found on cyprus


medieval ruins? in the midst of kissonerga


and in our off time we went to the beach



Monday, July 26, 2010

Lara Reserve, Redux




first, this was once a cave floor but the cave eroded. leaving the pygmy hippo fossils exposed
pygmy hippo!


back down into the cave


descent is into this lovely tunnel

plenty of light gets into the cave proper


the cave itself


Sunday, July 25, 2010

Limassol




visual artists at the medieval museum of cyprus


Lemenesos castle