"The camera is a tool for idlers, who use
a machine to do their seeing for them."
Le Corbusier
Color and light; Sketches and drawings; Experiences, images and thoughts;
This is what has been recorded in Elias' sketchbooks over the years. Elias
has been travelling and sketching since he was a student of Architecture
in 1986. He travelled to Italy, Spain, Israel, Egypt,
Germany, the US, the UK, and Greece. He exhibited
his sketchbooks for the first time at the Gallery of the A&A Building
at Yale School of Architecture
in 1992, then at the Athens College Theater (Greece) in 1994, and
finally, at the Jerusalem Theater
(Israel) in 2002. Elias' sketches have been published
in Israel and the US. Some of Elias' sketchbooks can also be viewed online.
"Sunday walk in the Plaka. I look at the carved marbles scattered on
the ground near the Tower of the Winds... stones carved by a craftsman that
has long past away together with his craft... I keep on walking and I constantly
find myself under the Acropolis. I am in love with this part of Athens;
the part of the ghosts; the part of nostalgia; the part of day-dreaming.
The Acropolis has become like a point of reference to my explorations."
Plaka, Athens 18/7/1993
