- FIRE IN THE HOLE

All Fotos: By Alex Harsley

ALEX HARSLEY

Any consideration of Alex Harsley must take into account both his long evolving artistic practice and the key role he has played, as director of 4th Street Photo Gallery, in lending a degree of coherence to an otherwise loose knit group of artists in New York for over three decades. Certainly the trajectory of his own career as an artist has been shaped by his ongoing decision to provide a platform and forum for other art practitioners, particularly at a time when few other support structures existed.

A great initiative, an Art Collective work is LIVE now :FITH ArtCollective: FIRE IN THE HOLE

Become an associate sharing in the reward coming from an unified and engaging effort gaining control over our destiny.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE will, again, rise to the point of understanding to do something NOW!

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Its a great honor to share FITH Art Collective with all of you. To Garia August, Maria Garozi and Eidothea,

ALEX HARSLEY IS OUR SUPPORT STRUCTURE AND 4TH STREET GALLERY IS HOME OF THE ART & HOME OF THE HEART -

- Maria Garozi & Garia August

Foto: Home East Village, 2010

Dear K.M. -

Its Tuesday night 10:00pm. New Month began.
February of year 2010.
My skin is still itchy and I didn't have dinner yet.
Just some chips.
I liked the Tostitos with lime taste that you had home. I think I went to buy the same chips this afternoon because of my desire to taste again the idea that I am still at your home spending some more time together. But I am not there. And you are not here.
So I write to you a letter.

I keep it all personal.
Thank you for the word of advice.

Le livre “Sexual Politics; La politique du Male” e le livre A.D. ont une place speciale a ma biblioteque. Obviously, I don’t have a library in my small East Village studio apartment but your books have a special place now in my heart. Thank you for the rare edition in French.

It seems like I got my job back at the Greek Salad Maker's place as you called it. I will take you there one night for some calamari.

Our conversation got interrupted when I asked you who was the person who broke your heart. We have to get a nice bottle of ouzo as I promised you to talk about that girl.

I will explain you also about my greek heart. Mother once told me that my heart is big like a Kafeneio (coffee place in Greek); it holds the secrets of many loves but also many sorrows.

And all that you said about Simone De Beauvoir...

Did she ever write to you a letter?

Its late now. I will make a smoked salmon sandwich for dinner. And then I will take my pill.

Love,

Garia August

- MEETING K.M.

Foto: Masha Froliak

A whole evening at Kate Millett's home -

At the table there is still some chocolate, chips, the empty bottle of the french liqueur we just finished,a bottle of rose wine and our three empty glasses.

She looked over lighting up her cigarette and said: "I am always afraid when I start writing a book"

Garia replied: "I am tormented" is that the right word to say?

K.M: You don't need to be tormented. Keep practicing and write the damn thing.

While Masha Froliak was keeping a record of that uniquely special evening,
Kate Millett was reading :
In 1972 through misguided family
intervention I was caught and held in a California madhouse. And again
in 1980, this time in Ireland where my sympathy with the hunger strikers and "my record" made it possible for the police to commit me indefinitely to a back ward asylum in County Clare.

I was fortunate that both imprisonments were brief. Few are so fortunate.
But I have a record now; it could happen again.
Any time.
by Kate Millett.


Next time I know she will not forget the eggs at the pumpkin pie.

But it did taste so good even without the eggs.

- Maria Garozi

READING ALBERTO CAEIRO'S

poem

Ah! THEY WANT A LIGHT THAT’S BETTER THAN THE SUN’S
And since the soul is what doesn’t appear,
The perfect soul is the one that never appears:
The soul that’s made out of body,
The absolute body of things,
Existing-absolutely real-without shadows or errors,
The exact and entire coincidence of a thing with itself.

She paused reading

Looked out of the window

Remembered of the conversation between her two friends who were visiting from Greece and her mentor at 4th street Gallery:

DJ Manou: So Alex, what do you have to say for your students’ soul?

A.H.: She has no soul-

This reply has been troubling her thoughts for a long period of time. If exists a man who knows the author and her heteronyms well, this is no one else than her mentor.

And he announced that she has no soul-

Are all her heteronyms with no soul or solely the orthonym?

Is Alberto Caeiro’s poem the answer to her wonders?

“The perfect soul is the one that never appears”

Could it be of true that the perfect soul is the one that never appears?

- Maria Garozi

It All Started

Foto: January 1st, 2009 by Garia August

When I visited a year ago 4th Street Gallery and met
with Alex Harsley.

Alex asked:what do you need to learn on photography?
I replied: Everything starting from how to put
the film in the camera.

He smiled and he accepted to be my mentor and teacher.

For the past year we are working together on a book
of fotos and stories. The book of a Girl's Journey
from Greece to New York.

Welcome to Eidothea's world and the life of
Maria Garozi and Garia August,
the two authors of this blog.

love
-Maria.