Artist Ricky Lee Gordon was recently commissioned to create a work for the Paxos Contemporary Art Project in Greece. Titled: THE SON OF THE SEA CREATED AN ISLAND FOR HIS LOVER SO SHE WOULD REST HIS TIRED HEART, he had this to say about its inception, disruption, and that despite not being able to finish the work, the surrounding issues in his view, gave the work its completion:

“Whilst nearing completion of the installation which would serve as a shrine to the story and aching love of Poseidon the Church arrived and asked me to stop. The property which the festival organizers were given and thought to belong to municipality in fact belonged to the church.
The installation consists of a portrait of Poseidon as a young boy overlooking the remaining columns and roof tiles of an abandoned house to represent self and the dismantling of self. Also in some way it was my intention to create a self portrait, reflection on and ritual for the letting go of longing.

The situation and experience of being confronted by the Church and the uncompleted installation is for me the final work. It took on a life of its own out of my control like everything in this constant ever changing flux of a universe. The other interesting link is that it was the Church who dismantled and put an end to any and all belief in the mythology and ritual for the Greek gods.
Aphrodite hid from Poseidon’s love at the ‘end of the world’ so he created the island of Paxos to convince her that if she were to love him she would have the power to soothe his chaotic ways and bring balance to his restless heart.

The myth is also significant as it is thought to symbolize the end of the ancient world and the dawn of the Christian era.”

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