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After sunrise
I could say that the photo is taken early in the morning. The fact that the beach, which is on India’s west coast, is for the most part in shadow, indicates this. The sun has not yet fully risen above the trees that are behind me. I could say that the man and his cow…
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A point of view
Around the turn of the 19th century a certain abbot Fouré indulged himself for more than ten years in a folly of excess. Over a surface of many square meters he changed the face of the sea coast at Rothéneuf, St. Malo, by sculpting more than 300 figures close to each other in the rocks.…
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And the guardian deity remains imperturbed
Are the tree roots going to destroy the Gopura or are they supporting the structure and preventing it from falling apart? I think they are doing both. The building can easily tolerate the slow advances of the tree, at first but after some time the roots start showing their destructive power. They loosen the coherence…
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Rhythmic mountain song …
… for two silent voices. I like the mountains – being among them – for their majestic silence. Each time when I see the picture of these two mountain ridges I halt again and listen to their music without sound, a beautiful music of silence. Cage or Feldman could have composed it. The view was…
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Autumn Sonata
Een man loopt op een bospad in de herfst. De man is mijn broer, maar het had ieder ander kunnen zijn: ikzelf, of jij die naar deze foto kijkt. Het is de mens. Hij gaat zijn weg door het leven. Leven dat op een goede dag tot zijn eind komt. A man walks on a…
