Tracy St. Warehouses, ca 2007

"...before the art galleries, the hair salons, the confectionaries, the trapeze canopies and recording studios, they were a series of vast, neglected compartments of darkness and detritus...home to pools of stagnant rain water and rotting lumber, filled with stifling black heat, reeking of turpentine and mildew...populated by turkey vultures and feral cats...harboring twisted yet powerful trees growing up from the collapsed foundations...
     This drawing will appear in an ATHICA book project about historic Athens as seen through the eyes, stories, and memories of Athens' artists.