Alexander Apostol, although I can't figure out how to switch his website text to english, so I can only understand a few of the words, is as I understand a really amazing and hard working artist who deals mostly with architecture. He somehow has the time and money to create whole buildings that don't look inhabitable, but are just there as works of art. I'm impressed.
I suppose he works with architecture because it is the most mundane and common of things. Everyone in the world probably spends most of their time indoors, or at least where I live. Heck, in academia where I am right now, it's lucky for someone to have enough time to go outside and see the sunshine! So Alexander takes these most viewed things, and changes them up a bit by making something a little off on them, like a lack of doors, or window panes that don't actually look into a room, which is a little shocking to the viewer and creates extreme interest. It's like if you walk your dog around the same path every day for years on end, and then suddenly someone had painted the pathway green. You would surely notice, even though people hardly notice the pathway they walk on.
His website is http://www.alexanderapostol.com/07_residente.php. Check it out, there are some really nice pictures there.
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