One astounding side to Berlin life is it’s patinas. Gorgeous surfaces all over the cities meandering neighborhoods; Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreutzberg. Berlin has seduced my senses, I am patina pondering and poster dazzle eyed.
for me these tiles, their location, their shape, colour and size are all Manhattan in the 20th Century…
December’s Bergdorf Goodman windows still tracing through the memory.
The shadows dance and light bursts intermittently through various tints of old glass. It all hints at the warm glow of hearts within made merry on mead (or something along that vein).
…Thy rough, rude fortress gleams afar; Like some bold veteran, grey in arms, And mark’d with many a seamy scar: The pond’rous wall and massy bar, Grim-rising o’er the rugged rock, …
This is what happens when camera batteries fall short; the camera phone must step forward; the owner of said camera must carry spare disposable cameras …
Boekie Woekie call themselves Europe’s oldest store for artist’s books. “A sculpture in progress” is how they describe themselves; one that has been emerging since …
A red door and one member of the 74th precinct New York’s [other] finest…
The smear is primordially understood by us all. It’s a primitive delight we learn as children; smearing anything really brings on a wonderful sensation. Smearing leaves our lives far too quickly as we streamline it into finger painting and then imagery and representation.
Today in 1799 the Rosetta Stone was discovered; An edict in honor of King Ptolemy V; written in three ancient texts it was to provide …
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