These are sculptures I made on the island of Crete, Greece in October & November 2007 and then again January, Feb & March 2008. Crete is the birthplace of Zeus and the home of the Minotaur who lurked in the Labyrinth. From King Minos' Palace Icarus tryed to escaped and flew to near the sun and melted his wax wings and fell into the sea. These are just some of the islands legends. Thus the stones and rock are unique and they inspire me constantly.

MIMETOLITHS -- synopsis trailer see> http://exposure.cbc.ca/video/mimetoliths-movie-trailer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MiMEtoLITHs had the 12 planets first! Algis Kemezys, whose documentary Mimetoliths extrapolates on the importance of the numeral 12 in the history and the folklore of our culture. As expressed by the mystic and mathematician Pythagoras there are twelve planets in the heavens, just as there are twelve gods on Mount Olympus, and twelve months in the year, and twelve Apostles in the Bible, and twelve bagels in a dozen. The big difference between my twelve planets (or rather, Pythagoras’) include Anticthone, a paradisiacal, earth-like world, equidistant from the sun and undiscerned by our telescopes because its orbit mimics ours, but on the opposite side of the sun and therefore invisible to us. For more about Anticthone, as well as the golden proportion of 1:1.618, the Minotaur, Artemis the goddess of the forest, Medea the sorceress, the Phaestos Disc and its message, and all the other creatures, gods, chimeras, and myths that lie dormant for millennia in the rocks and the cliffs and the beaches of Crete, the most ancient of Europe’s civilisations, check out Mimetoliths. Already shown in six festivals, it plays this Autumn in Turkey as part of the U.N. sponsored film festival Mediterranean Environmental Award, and also in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Cackalaky Film Festival, and in all four locations (Alaska, Arizona, Oregon, New Zealand) of the Night Gallery Film Festival. It will be launched commercially in October at Cannes’ MIPCOM by its distributor TPI out of Chantilly, Virginia. For more details about Mimetoliths please contact Algis Kemezys at: (514) 583-5831, or, alkeme2008@yahoo.com http://mimetoliths.blogspot.com/ http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm http://www.cackalackyfilmfest.com/

In the Laurentians north of Montreal there are magic forests with primordial rocks that spoke to me on first sight. They are elusive, of course, these entities waiting sober, embedded in stone, with emotions that have endured the millennia. But they are there for all to see, and to fantasize. Quebec, Canada,Rock Formations, Mimetoliths,Val David and Val Morin rocks and stones and cliffs plus mountains. Forest, Woods, Hiking sites, Stone Sculpture

These slides were made after 1984 when my parents farmhouse burnt down. I used common household toxic ingredients, dyes and fire.On some slides the images were burnt off then reburnt on again without burning through the slide. A real phoenix and the fire story. This portfolio was also called Meltdown at one time. Published in Darkroom Photography Magazine twice. Photo Life and various newspapers. The image of Flowering Destruction,"Woman in Market" won me a bronze medal at the New York City International Art Competition. 1985

In 1999/2000 I was living in Greenwich Village. At night after work I used to snap Polaroids and draw on them moments later. Usually I made 2 giving one to the participant. Sometimes it was -16 like the one with the Cigar store. There are about 35 good images in the portfolio many more to come.