"Palaces of Knossos "

Daedalus, the mythical engineer and his son Icarus  arrived to Knossos with a commission from king Minoas to build the Labyrinth. The king locks them up in their workshop for the fear of betraying the secret plans of the Labyrinth. From his window Daedalus watches everyday life in the Minoan Crete, with special attention to the flying birds.

The British archaeologist Arthur Evans in 1900 begins the reconstruction of the ancient Palace of Knossos, found close by to the modern city of Heraklion.  Evans following his own aesthetic ideas, and his persistence on the Minoan civilization he had just discovered, remains uninterested to the scientific archaeological practice and reconstructs a Minoan palace of fantasy, ignoring the elements from the excavation.

I year ago I moved from London to the mostly unknown for me, Heraklion in Crete.  My life took a different direction. Unlike the travelling journals, my main photographic direction in the past, here I had to retrain my eye to the aspects of my daily life. Using the story of Daedalus to entertain my fears on the arrival and the allowance for   a fantasy-based selective view of this place, alike Evans, I aspire to record the story of my settlement in Heraklion.