Category: Europe
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Redemption of man
or the cross in the mountains If God is in the detail (“Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail”, Aby Warburg), then he is more present in the fly on the cross than in the man who’s nailed to it. I, at least, have always marvelled at the fly that is taking a rest on the…
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Fall of man
Adam and Eve, thrown out of paradise by an angry god. What had they done wrong? They had committed the first, original sin. They had eaten the fruits from ‘the tree of knowledge of good and evil’ which god had explicitly forbidden. As a consequence the first man and woman lost their innocence and they…
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Death anonymous
A graphic photo of intersecting lines on a white background. Plain and severe. What more can we say about it? We are on a small, snow-clad cemetery in the mountains. The wooden cross is of utmost simplicity. The two beams haven’t even been placed in one plane. The cross beam has simply been fixed on…
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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 