Category: Europe
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White on white
The bathtub in the snow reveals that we are here on a mountain pasture in winter. The cows are in their shed down in the valley. The marmots are hibernating in their holes underground. And the people have closed their summer chalets and have moved to their homes lower down. The virgin blanket of snow…
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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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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…
καιρός remembered 