Yes.The Tied Home

YES The affirmative 'Yes' is very important in my life. The 'Yes' is my great affirmation of Life -- Existence, Love and Eros -- I am, I Will and I Do. I utter 'Yes' with ample generosity. The 'Yes' is a vehicle to the psychical and physical communication with my Love. The 'Yes', with a capital initial letter is true and absolute. It has its roots in the affirmation of Penelope, Socrates, Jesus Christ, Molly Bloom and every Dalai Lama. If in my lifetime to I manage to commune with 'Yes', then I shall shatter death. It does not accommodate any refusal because it concerns an ideological 'Yes', with the oath of its fulfillment. Of course the 'Yes' is not uncritical, but always addresses whatever suits the embodiment of my Desire. I accept the proposal of 'Yes', to reconcile with unpleasant situations - such as ugliness, arrogance, obscenity, stench and suffocation - insofar as these are needed as the only or necessary means towards my ultimate mission -- the Bound Home.

POSSIBILITY OF YES I accept that the 'Yes' is so universal as to engulf within it the No. Nevertheless, I wish to believe that it shall always prevail. Although the 'Yes' is a promise, in the course it may appear to be void. In such dangerous circumstances the strength of my will and endurance is tried. The 'Yes', which resembles the Hollywood promise «I shall always love you», contains so much truth as exaggeration. In its true version the 'Yes' is a hubris tested by God, while in its exaggeration it is anticipated by my Love to the degree of non-anxiety. I am the one with the power to change or stop the progress towards the completion of my Desire. I promise myself to remain utterly loyal to 'Yes'. I have decided that 'Yes'!

1st CONTRADICTION The Bound Home is an extremely demanding condition. It presupposes the affirmative 'Yes', which means that to identify with my mission I must suffer and endure the provisional separation or temporary distancing from my Desire. If the 'Yes' finally leads to the beloved Garden, I accept to tolerate any conditional martyrdoms.

2nd CONTRADICTION The Bound Home is full of hard and soft materials, pleasant and unpleasant situations, joys and traumas, light and dark. I admit that life is accompanied by death. Perhaps such obvious contradiction forebodes a great truth about relationships -- that I risk to destroy my Love, and my Love risks to destroy me. This may explain the avoidable insecurity of the Bound Home or by extension the unmentionable question of Yes. Conclusion: The Bound Home is as much a protective shelter as it is a fragile ruin.

DESIRE The 'Yes' owes its strength to my Desire for creation. I create out of a profound need to rediscover my lost innocence. I am after the dream that will make me feel complete in myself, so as to deserve my Love. The Desire is what urges me to look for what I lack. I am moved by what I receive from shortage. In the Odyssey towards Ithaca I gain the possibility of self-knowledge. I understand that I desire to unite with my Love -- bound by ties of blood. We become one when in a situation of simultaneous completeness we allow ourselves to bleed dangerously.

RISK "The Only Home I Have Is YOU" / "I Am A Safety Net -- JUMP"

PUNS The following pairs of words in Greek (the last is in English) sound similar and form puns that play with meaning: gallows or strain / innovative or vacant / whole or hole.

TOPOGRAPHY My Desire urges me to create the Bound Home. Its space consists of three parts: the Paternal House, the New Home, and the Garden. Strip prohibitive police describe the limits of their locations.

I. PATERNAL HOUSE The Paternal House is the family place where I grew up with affection. The Paternal House illuminates with red color old works (portraits of father, mother, brother, and me) in standard rectangular shape, which probably indicates priggishness. A baby sleeping under the security of a blanket is one of my distant memories. Now the Paternal House is an empty hole and can no longer protect me. Here has already enthroned Death and my only salvation is to flee. It is time to build my own Home.

THRONE The Throne, resembling an electric chair in the kitchen, represents the prison in the Paternal House from which I escape. -- Our little one, we do not believe in you, that you will make it. -- Mom, hide the knives because I will slay you! We bled, but reconciled before I left...
my video for the recent work of painter and installation artist Ellie Griva for her Athens exhibition and her book entitled Yes The Tied Home Text by Megaklis Rogakos,music by Jean Sibelius

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• painting
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• lucia rikaki
• ellie griva

[andreaswine]

ΝΑΙ!

[boababtrees]

very nice ellie