A Glimpse of Mount Athos
Our time is a time of plethora.
The possibilities that technology gives us are too many. The quantity is not necessarily of quality. Nowadays, we all circulate with one or several mobile phones and so we can immortalise the instants that impress us. An unlimited number of photos that, fortunately, we are not obliged to print on paper, but how many of these photos are ‘worthy’ of this? May be many, depending of the point of view of the photographer.
These photos of Koray Erkaya, a man who visited the Holy Mountain, a very different place from the one where he has always lived, are meaningful even to us monks, who live here and see without lens all what that he has captured with his camera. Equally meaningful it should be for those who will come in contact with the Holy Mountain through the eyes of this experienced artist. True art is abstraction, so, through abstraction, with a few photos, he has tried to express his feelings for the Holy Mountain this unique place in the world, close to “his own world”, too.
We wish his message will touch the souls of those who will see these photos.
Hieromonk Makarios Holy Hermitage of Marouda Mount Athos
