
remarks in the dark
what do discarded plastic bottles, whales, fish, birds and medusas have in common and why it is important to make a remark of that commonality.









what do discarded plastic bottles, whales, fish, birds and medusas have in common and why it is important to make a remark of that commonality.
in a Christmas exposition at the Monestir of Pedralbes in Barcelona you look at dioramas from a somehow unusual standpoint.
possibly the most sought after place to have a dwelling in Barcelona is crowned on its upper end by a cloister and even something close to silence is possible here.
Zwei Männer um die 50 joggen am Sonntag um zehn Uhr durch die schmalen Straßen und über die Brücken Venedigs. Es gibt etwa vierhundert von ihnen, versehen mit Treppenstufen, die nur die halbe Höhe haben. Träger überqueren sie sanft mithilfe kleiner Zusatzrädchen an ihren Karren, die etwa einen halben Meter vor den Rädern montiert sind. Ware wird so durch die Stadt transportiert. Müll auch. Wer hier lebt, muss anders leben als jeder, der woanders lebt: Ein Auto braucht man nicht. Ein Großeinkauf geht nicht. Das Fahrradfahren ist verboten.
now silent, they were busy halls, where the fate of the world was once decided. Where the defence of Constantinople was fatally delayed. Passages and narrow stairways designed the flow of people, whose fate was too here by the devices of justice decided and with a last sight were walked across the bridge to barred windows.
Es muss ein kleiner Fischerort mit Reetdach geschmückten Häuschen sein, aber es soll nicht nach Fisch riechen. Es soll einen Fischmarkt geben, wo es frischen Fisch zu kaufen gibt. Selbstverständlich soll es kein Fisch aus dem Westpazifik sein, sondern regional. Er soll Substanz haben. Doch nur die, die dem Ort die Substanz geben, sollten nicht da sein, maximal nur dekorativ.
*England, England (Julian Barnes, 1998)
the air is still cold and the sun already cozily warm for a ride down the Altmühl along the cycling path. A church made of bushes is still growing to completion in Pappenheim, the roofings still a bit thin, the tower naked yet.
Sebastião Salgado’s exhibit of misery and pain at the Kunstfoyer in Munich throw us the hopeless nature of humanity’s problem in the face, namely corrupt power and specifically corrupt government.
in the early hours of the day after a night’s snowfall and the traffic noise is muffed geometries and shapes look new and the tonal symmetry of the ground and the sky offer exceptional compositional settings.
leaving aside superlatives, Freyburg offers an out-of-the-crowd visit to a septentrional wine region with surprising views and very enjoyable wines. Free horses and flower gardens settled in disused old East-Germany-Era army training grounds. Following the river Unstrut to the south you find Naumburg (Saale), old light railways and a surprisingly large cathedral.