Ancient Sites

All of these photographs were taken on film between 1998 and 2003. The images at once revive the glory of golden age, heralding its mark on the Greek landscape—social, political and cultural—while documenting the monument’s physical collapse and their ultimate ephemerality. And the futility of the human urge to leave a mark. The interplay of the monuments’ grandeur alongside their decay —and its inevitability—brings Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian to mind. In the novel, The Judge discusses the decaying settlements of the Anasazi in the American southwest,

"So. Here are the dead fathers. Their spirit is entombed in the stone. It lies upon the land with the same weight and the same ubiquity. For whoever needs a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the mud with scarcely a cry. But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe and so it was with these masons however primitive their works may seem to us."

From Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy