4th Street Gallery, NYC
Foto by Garia August
IT ALL STARTED
When Maria visited in 2008 4th Street Gallery and met with Alex Harsley.
Alex asked: "what do you need to learn on photography?"
She replied: "Everything starting from how to put the film in the camera." He smiled and he accepted to be her mentor and teacher.
For the past years they worked together on a book of fotos and stories. The book of a Girl's Journey from Greece to New York.
Welcome to Finding Eidothea's world and the life of
Maria Garozi and Garia August,the two authors of this blog.
Love
-Garia.
Was created by Maria Garozi and her heteronym Garia August as a way to allow them share stories, poetry & fotos of their book in progress but also to share moments of Greece with those they met in New York and moments of their life in New York with the ones left behind. While most writings are based on true facts, several stories are meant to let the reader enter into a fantastical world and an even mythological one. Besides, for Maria and Garia, life is a journey of fantasy -
Finding Eidothea is a book project with interweaving narratives. A modern-day memoir of the passage from Greece to America narrating the first years of Maria Garozi and Garia August in New York and the myth story of Goddess Artemis' imagined daughter, Eidothea, hence the title “Finding Eidothea”
East Village Studio, 2011
Foto by Alan Gastelum
MARIA GAROZI
"-There is no point being if you cant somehow share who you are- "
"-So then, write about you and your life-"
"-There is no point writing about your life if you don't invent yourself again and again. -"
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Maria Garozi, Apt 1A, New York 2010
Foto by Alan Gastelum
GARIA AUGUST
Garia August is Maria Garozi’s first and most dear heteronym; summarized: “She sees things with the heart only, she is the strongest of the two; for she is the one to always bring them both in pain”
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Garia August,East Village,New York 2010
Foto by Alan Gastelum
EIDOTHEA ("the very image of the Goddess")
EIDO′THEA (Eidothea), a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. (Hom. Od. iv. 365, &c.)
Eidothea in this blog and writings becomes a re-imagined &; re-born Mythological Character of what derives from Maria Garozi and her heteronym. She is the future of what could become of them; or maybe of what is of them.
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EIDO′THEA (Eidothea), a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. (Hom. Od. iv. 365, &c.)
Eidothea in this blog and writings becomes a re-imagined &; re-born Mythological Character of what derives from Maria Garozi and her heteronym. She is the future of what could become of them; or maybe of what is of them.
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Maria Garozi seen as Eidothea
Ste 2C, New York 2007
Foto by Hollister Lowe