The project concerned audio-visual recordings of selected paths of Mount Athos. The paths of Mount Athos were the main axis of communication between the monasteries from the foundation of Mount Athos until a few years ago. “Technological progress” led to their violent abandonment, to the degradation of the ecosystem that had developed for more than 1000 years. Along the way, walkers discover that large sections of routes have been replaced by the road network. Almost all the springs have been sealed and turned into a closed irrigation infrastructure for the rapidly expanding crops. Logging one economic activity that you have maintained for a thousand years does not seem to have adversely affected the biodiversity of the ecosystem. The absence of animal husbandry offers the place acomfortable survival of all species, resulting in a raging vegetation for all the routes of Mount Athos.

With the recordings, the main pursuit was not the aesthetic enjoyment but the transfer of the contradictory - many times - landscape of Mount Athos, as encountered today by walkers and pilgrims. The human presence is sometimes therapeutic and many times harmful for the Garden of Holy Mother as the monks call it. The project included the following routes: HM Xenophontos - Karyes, Karyes - HM Pantokratoros, HM Vatopediou - HM Karakalou, New Skete - HM Simonos Petra.