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New Life for the Past

While working on one of my projects I came across the Krakra fortress in Pernik, Bulgaria. I was amazed by the poor quality of the work on the reconstructed section and the fact that the original remnants of the fortress were conserved and exhibited in an even worse manner (most of this work was financed with millions from the European Regional Development Fund). I decided to visit as many of these supposedly reconstructed cultural heritage sites as I could and photograph them. In most cases the end result and appearance of these places is not backed up by any historical evidence. In parallel with this I made a series of 14 x 19 cm drawings (re)constructing animals from fragments (various bones, shells, teeth and other fossils). As an amateur (I have no formal education as a painter, nor as a palaeontologist) I distorted and changed the authentic appearance and function of the fragments on the basis of my own hypothesis.

Drawings
Tsari Mali Grad
Neutzikon
Abritus
Kovachevsko Kale
Nove
Shtipon
Perperikon
Hotalich
Yaila
Krakra
Peristera
Shumenska Krepost
Tuida
Sostra
Pautalia
Radnevo
Pliska
Markeli
Hissar
Dimum
Sozopol
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