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Selective memory
Selective memory Last week we had a theatre stage covered with carnations, this week we have tree branches hanging from the ceiling of a restaurant. While I still cherish the memory of the ballet performance between the thousands of carnations, the dinner under the tree branches has passed into oblivion. Photo of the week: Restaurant…
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“Nelken” stage
“Nelken” stage Carnations, thousands of them, growing on the stage of “Nelken”, the ballet by Pina Bausch. Since its premiere in 1982 it has been performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal numerous times all over the world. I saw it twice in Amsterdam, in 1995 and then again in 2016. Meanwhile Pina Bausch had died but her…
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A rare sight
A rare sight I saw him one day on the wall of our house.A butterfly? So big and strange?A search operation taught me: not a butterfly but a moth.A moth? So big and strange? And so beautiful?Yes, it is the Actias selene, the Indian Luna moth.A rare sight. Never saw one again. Photo of the…
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Someone was here
Someone was here A riverbed, a row of stones.Each stonea freak of nature.The row of stones– picked out, laid down –a freak of man. Photo of the week: Riverbed, Solalex, Switzerland 2020
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A tribute to HM
A tribute to HM I was immersed in looking at The Sheaf, one of Matisse’s large collages, made during the latter years of his life when he was bedridden and not able to paint anymore. Then a visitor entered my field of view. I took her appearance for a fortunate incident, a fleeting tribute to…
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Wet dream
Wet dream The young man dreams of a good catch. Only when looking more closely at the painting we see what kind of fish he actually hopes to hook up with. Sweet dreams of youth. Photo of the week: “Rêves de jeunesse” (1894) by the Swiss painter Luigi Rossi, Musée d’Art et Histoire, Genève, Switzerland…
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Stigmata
Stigmata When the shopkeeper in the little town of Deruta, known since mediaeval times for its quality production of majolica earthenware, was dressing his shop-window he must have thought: let’s have something for everyone. Photos of the week: Ceramics shop, Deruta, Italy 2018
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The tree bridge
The tree bridge “It’s after long deliberations that I dared to take the step. It wasn’t easy. Bend, midway start a branch growing down … and then yes, I finally reached the opposite side. Now that my branch has rooted on the other bank, the river passes under me, feeding me from both sides.” Photo…
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Transience
Transience I like visibly run-down constructions, their abandonment, nature slowly invading the remains. It provokes contemplation, about impermanence, about people and the things that pass. Here we are in a dilapidated spa on the wooded bank of the Namkhan River. Once finished, the spa soon fell into disuse. Nature has not yet entered but is…
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In a flash
In a flash Was it the way she sat, or the way she looked, or her lipsticked lips, or maybe her amusing fairylike dress? Probably it was all this together.You see something or somebody, are touched and there you go, photo!The little girl takes care of the goods in the stall of – presumably –…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 