The time has come when too naive images are repressed, when beaten images are neglected. The image of the home sink is the most beaten. It’s too simple to be successfully complicated, too old to be freshened. One word he puts into everything he can say. But no matter what, it’s a primary image, and it’s unbroken. It’s the heritage of a constant store of ancients of human imagination. Gaston Bashlar. The Poetry of Space
During regular walks along the coast of the Gulf of Finland, I was thinking about the sea and where the man came from and how the city came from. Looking at historical and archaeological sources, I found that where people now live, there was a sea floor once. Before becoming a Baltic, the sea was different. And the other sea, already in our day, has been called Lytorin, a snail that has long lived in coastal waters. I began to explore careers and concessions, sculptures and ruins, caves and temples. They consist of two basic elements: limestone and marble. Both come from organic compounds that once came from shellfish of clams that lived and lived in these places.
In the early 18th century, a young Russian ruler interested in the utopian ideas of mentors from other nations laid the city here. He adopted technological innovations and aesthetic principles, but he set aside the ethical and legal foundations of Western Christian societies at that time. After choosing a shorter path, Peter created a city without roots, a city of similacre, and a secondary Utopia, a city that became the capital of the Russian state for 200 years.
As I wandered along the shore, I myself, unsuspectingly, began a time journey between Egyptian pyramids, Greek statues, palaces and the idea of state. By taking pictures of the city and the place where it is founded in detail, I’m creating new simulations, suggesting what else this land could have turned into. I represent this land and this city as an endless snail, which, because of its size, becomes incomprehensible to an observer. I call this territory Litorrey’s snail, like a pioneer who’s found something new, so far unknown.
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