Lost and Found Souls, from the show "Sacred Matter" at Smack Mellon Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn, September 2002. Karen Dolmanisth was the second installation in the show: her installation was entitled "Theological Reversals". Each half of the show was 3500 sq. ft.

Lost and Found Souls is a group of altars, hanging "Ghosts", and freestanding sculptures that I have been working on for the past ten years. I began working on it when a friend of mine, who is an antiques dealer, offered me several boxes of religious memorabilia. I had, at the same time, commissioned an icon in honor of my father, Dionysius Gokinos, who died before my birth. The collection of religious objects began simply but grew into separate altars with separate themes that eventually took on the direction of what is now a devotional installation. It is a series of altars exploring grief, a lost life, the nature of someone never known, periods of great happiness in my life, cultural phenomena, and our society's misguided dumping of chemicals on the environment.

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20th Century Icons
Century Icons Overview	20th Century Icons 1	20th Century Icons 2
20th Century Icons, detail 1	20th Century Icons, detail 2

Lost and Found Souls / Sacred Matter
General View, Lost and Found Souls, 1	General View, Sacred Matter Karen Dolmanisth & Deborah Masters, 1	General View, Sacred Matter Karen Dolmanisth & Deborah Masters, 2
General View, Lost and Found Souls	General View, Lost and Found Souls	General View, Lost and Found Souls

Catholic Women's Altar
Catholic Women’s Altar General View 1	Catholic Women’s Altar, detail 1	Catholic Women’s Altar, detail 2
Catholic Women’s Altar detail 3	Catholic Women’s Altar, detail 4	Catholic Women’s Altar, detail 5
Catholic Women’s Altar " Who Bears the Burden"

Mexican Childhood
Mexican Childhood Altar 1	Mexican Childhood Altar 2
Mexican Childhood Altar 3	Mexican Childhood Altar 4

Otto's Altar
Otto’s Altar 1, Otto Ghost 1	Otto’s Altar 1, Otto Ghost 1a	Otto’s Altar 2
Otto’s Altar 3	Otto’s Altar 4	Otto’s Altar 5

Pennsylvania Childhood
Pa. Childhood 1, General View	Pa. Childhood 2, General View	Pa. Childhood 3, General View
Pa. Childhood 4	Pa. Childhood 5	Pa. Childhood 6

Power Woman
Power Woman Altar	Power Woman Altar 0	Power Woman Altar 1
Power Woman Altar 2	Power Woman Altar with Snake Lady	Power Woman Altar, detail 1

Power Woman Altar, detail 2	Power Woman & Red Panel, detail 1
Power Woman & Red Panel, detail 2	Power Woman & Red Panel, detail 3

223 Water Street
Water Street and Mafia Monsters Altars	Water Street Altar 2	Water Street Altar 3
Water Street Altar 4	Water Street Altar, detail 1

Fathers and Marriages
Fathers and Marriages Altar (Mary)	Fathers and Marriages Altar, 1	Fathers and Marriages Altar, detail 1
Fathers and Marriages Altar, detail 2	Fathers and Marriages Altar, General View