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Christmas invitation to my friend Ari Stoidis' house.

Below I would like to share with you what I captured in bits and pieces, with the camera lens I had with me.

Christmas decoration as "sweet extravaganza", as Aris used to say, stealing the line from a friend. The perfect excuse to play like a child again. To get his little soldiers in line, to remember the childhood fairy tales of the old days and get lost in their magic, to remember his childhood amusement park. To dream of the circus with ballerinas, clowns, wild animals, and acrobats, all of which marched down the street from his house every season. The Circus and Animals ornaments on his Christmas tree revived that dream.

Aris reminisces how huge and glowing his skinny tree was back then yet with rich lavish ornaments, the twinkling lights and Santa Clauses, and himself looking at them, mesmerized, lying on the carpet underneath for hours. The same Santa Clauses he ritually placed on his tree last every year.

This sparkling and dreamlike universe he tries to revive and retrieve every Christmas, increasing the amount of ornaments every year.

As if to bridge the ever-growing gap of time.

Christmas toys not just as decorations but as a ticket back to our first youth, our childhood glimpse.

May we return this year, and every Christmas!

Paris Parisis

Photographer

Opening 20-12-2021, 20.30p.m.

De Facto / Pavlou Mela 19

From 13-12-2021

Recyclable Materials Fashion Show 6 | Multimodal art event: "Creation / Literature / Recycling" Fashion on the theme of Literature and Recycling "The Friends of New Paralia" had their event "New Paralia New Passarella 6 / Recycled Materials Only" Fashion Exhibition on "Literature", held for the 6th consecutive year, in September 2020. The exhibition took place at Bezesteni (Venizelou & Solomou) from 10 to 25 June 2021, co-organized with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City, as part of the events "June in the Monuments and Archaeological Sites of Thessaloniki". At the same time, in the event a number of my photographs from the Passarela events of the "Friends of New Paralia" of the last 6 years were exhibited. The Bezesteni, one of the most important Ottoman monuments of Thessaloniki, was built in the 15th century and was a key reference point of a city occupied by the Turks. The Turkish name Bezesten is derived from the word bez, meaning cotton or linen cloth, and these buildings were primarily markets for luxury fabrics. They were domed buildings with four to twenty-four domes that appeared in the so-called 'classical' period of Ottoman architecture (15th-16th centuries).

The invitation to Bezesteni, a place that has retain it's original use, allows one to see the imaginative artistic creations of the participating designers, to enjoy their aesthetic value, to discover the message and to enjoy the artist-designer's attempt to render his work using recyclable raw materials on a theme inspired by literature. It was a meeting of volunteerism, recycling, creativity, in the bustling landmark site of Byzantine Thessaloniki, in Bezesteni.

Thursday 10 June 18:00-20:00, 2021