Jacques Lacarrière inspiration for thesis

Jacques Lacarrière at the Benaki Museum, Athens

Lacarrière captures the Greek rural life during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in the villages, the islands, the mountains, and the fields. He focuses on everyday activities and occupations which demonstrate the character of Greek traditions. The mapping of these activities reveals the process of those tasks in an almost religious testimony. The cleaning and laying of the fishing nets in the sun, the unraveling of the sails on the boat deck, the gathering of the people in the central square of the village under the tree, the line of donkeys descending on narrow paths, the hanging of the lavender upside down to dry and keep its smell, the accordion, the fishing at the edge of the dock, the boat-yard (careenage), the island isolation, the kids gracefully walking on white pavement hand by hand, the pergola etc etc. These acts’ repetitive force has shaped part of the modern Greek cultural and natural landscape. I am wondering about the possibilities of exploring these processes through the re-invention of their narrative, a re-iterative mapping, a system.