Thanks for paying attention.
To commemorate this moment, here's your SOUVENIR*.
SOUVENIR 002
20/09/20, Thessaloniki
Once upon a time, the world fell into place.
I couldn’t believe my eyes at first.
After all, beauty lies to the I of the beholder.
But I was really there.
If only for an instant.
If only for the first and last time
If only you saw it, too.
“There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched. The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair, to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high.That which we call progress, is this storm.”
– Walter Benjamin
*Your SOUVENIR is your unique link to a paradise lost. Sure, you can go ahead and download this digital copy. Make it your phone wallpaper if you have to. It's all yours. But let's not forget Benjamin: "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."