Category: Europe
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Fall of man
Fall of man Adam and Eve, driven out of paradise by an angry god. What had they done wrong? They had committed the first, original sin. They had eaten the fruit of ‘the tree of the knowledge of good and evil’, which God had expressly forbidden. As a result, the first man and woman lost…
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Death anonymous
Death anonymous A graphic photograph of intersecting lines on a white background. Simple and minimalist. What more is there to say? We find ourselves in a small, snow-covered cemetery in the mountains. The wooden cross is extremely simple. The two beams aren’t even aligned on the same plane. The crossbar is simply attached to the…
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White on white
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…
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A point of view
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…
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Rhythmic mountain song …
Rhythmic mountain song … … for two silent voices. I love the mountains – being in their midst – because of their majestic silence. Whenever I see the photograph of these two ridges, I pause for a moment and listen to their soundless music, a beautiful music of silence. Cage or Feldman could have composed…
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Autumn Sonata
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 is…
καιρός remembered 