Songs For Everyone 2017

SONGS FOR EVERYONE photography exhibition by

Yiannis Roussakis

YIANNIS ROUSSAKIS From a very early age, people build a personal symbolic language out of fragments of their everyday experience. Some of these symbols have deep roots in archetypal forms of our common legacy as a species. Through this symbolic language we describe and interpret deep internal personal processes. Those symbols are usually made out of the most humble materials, out of experiences that are considered trivial and insignificant, like the curve of a shell, the sound of a pot boiling, the lights and shadows from the streetlights on the bedroom’s ceiling. During our lifetime, whenever we come across one of those personal symbols, we experience an instant moment of clarity. A moment stripped from the usual confusion and continuous noise of the conscious incontinent mind. Our analytical self is caught off guard, unequipped to process and make sense, to extract a safe logical pattern or a “lesson” out of this. The symbol hits below the skin, delivering an instant message, like an echo from the psyche, raw and unprocessed. Some people live their whole lives in a state of calm awareness and observation, until all things around them become symbols, literally transforming everyday life into another dream state, a metaphor about the unconscious reality. An artist is ANYBODY who can capture – in that precious moment of clarity- a line, a shape, a phrase, a sound sequence, anything that works as a symbol for him. Albeit very intimate, this symbol could potentially invoke moments of clarity to other people, too. The human spirit spontaneously responds to all things true.

95 Years

Drukpa Monks

Giclee print on archival paper Limited edition of 5 pieces Hand signed and numbered by the artist Ladakh 2016 119 x 84 cm AED 12,000

Giclee print on archival paper Limited edition of 10 pieces Hand signed and numbered by the artist 2016 52 x 74 cm AED 4,800

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Nomads in Ladakh

You, Me and Everybody Else

Giclee print on archival paper Limited edition of 5 pieces Hand signed and numbered by the artist Ladakh, India 2016 84 x 119 cm AED 12,000

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 Cambodia 2015 84 x 59 cm AED 5,300

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Chandrika’s Home

Butterfly Monk

Giclee print on archival paper, Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Sri Lanka 2016 84 x 59 cm AED 5,300

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Thailand 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,800

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Before Night Falls

Changpa Woman

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Cambodia 2015 62 x 50 cm AED 4,200

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh, India 2016 84 x 59 cm AED 5,300

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Changpa Tent

Songs For Everyone

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 5 pieces Ladakh, India 2016 119 x 84 cm AED 12,000

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Child at the Temple

Breakfast on the Himalayas

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 5 pieces Ladakh, India 2016 119 x 84 cm AED 12,000

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Dreaming of Cambodia

Wat At Sunset II

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Cambodia 2016 84 x 59 cm AED 5,300

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016 84 x 59 cm AED 5,300

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Girl at Phnom Kulen

Outside the Temple

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Cambodia 2015 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh, India 2016 84 x 59 cm AED 5,300

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HUM

Children of Koggala Lake

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Cambodia 2015 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

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Morning Ceremony

Monk Reading the Future

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Hemis Monastery, Ladakh 2016 72 x 54 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Phnom Kulen, Cambodia 2015 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

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Lolei Monk

Kid Laughing

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Lolei, Cambodia 2015 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

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Changpa Neighbor

Monastery Housekeeper

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Sri lanka 2016 119 x 84 cm AED 12,000

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By The Lake

Everybody’s Grandma

Giclee print on archival paper Limited edition of 10 pieces Hand signed and numbered by the artist Cambodia, 2015 52 x 74 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 5 pieces Alchi, Ladakh, India 2016 119 x 84 cm AED 12,000

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Songkran Wish

Rain at Angor

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Cambodia 2015 62 x 50 cm AED 5,300

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Waiting for the Dalai Lama I

Rêve d’ Angor

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Cambodia 2015 62 x 50 cm AED 4,200

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Chai at Songkran

Theravada Monk

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016 84 x 59 cm AED XX

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Thailand 2016 76 x 54 cm AED 4,700

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Tulku

Waiting for the Dalai Lama II

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Hemis Monastery, Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Choglamsar, Ladakh, India 2016 75 x 54 cm AED 4,700

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Thiksey Monastery

Wat At Sunset I

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Ladakh 2016 54 x 72 cm AED 4,700

Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Chiang Mai, Thailand 2016 62 x 50 cm AED 4,200

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Waiting for the Dalai Lama III Giclee print on archival paper Hand signed and numbered by the artist Limited Edition of 10 pieces Choglamsar, Ladakh, India 2016 50 x 62 cm AED 4,200

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Kondura

Campfire in the Desert

Archival print 92 x 92 cm AED 2,700

Archival print 92 x 70 cm AED 2,700

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Couch in the Desert

The Ladder in Al Ain

Archival print 97 x 74.5 cm AED 2,700

Archival print 100 x 73.5 cm AED 2,700

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