GEORGE SFOUGARAS ARTWORKS

I am watching what feels like a B-movie: 'Chase a Crooked Shadow'. I have the volume turned down low. I have no idea what it is about. It is late. It is on a channel called 'Talking Pics'; am not really watching it, as such. It is on in the background as I look through some art therapy ideas, as a bedtime reading is replete and I am in need of alternatives. There is some dysfunctional, gender biased, awkward 1950s romantic tension thing trying to happen. A good woman. A bad man. His eyes betray him, shifting and narrowing intermittently. The director has told him to "shift them like crazy." I imagine a Greek accent. (Elia Kazan?) Although the film is not really in the same league as Kazan's work. He obeys. He is shifting them. Left to right, back again... and again. He faces the camera, responding to her words, while her face is visible behind his shoulder. He heads the bill. A 50s heartthrob in a pullover, with sleeves, nea...

The process of creating a physical map of the Ovraiki Area of Hania, Crete,  in partnership  with Etz Hayyim Synagogue. LEICESTER UK  Day 1 Setting up for the creation of a map can be tricky, as I need a lot of information and access to a computer. But perhaps, the biggest challenge is to understand the layout of the city before I start. To do this, I use a lot of photographs, this time kindly supplemented by photographs of every building from street level, by Maike, an Austrian volunteer at Etz Hayyim.  Days 2 and 3 Creating the 'footprint'.  The footprint of the area.  That basically means the estimated or as accurate as possible size of buildings from above.  Their ground floor area.  After that, using all the photographs and Google maps I construct the 3D buildings, basically raising them up from the 'footprints'. This is a tricky bit, as I am using a tilt factor that allows me to show th...