In the St Nicholas Cathedral in Amstredam the left chapel features this painting by Hansa Versteeg. The clouded staircase behind the image hints at hierarchy, violence, and war… How the powerful sacrifice humans for Read More …
The tabula rasa of a world war created a canvas that emerged from ashes as a Phoenix. Embedded in every visible structure is a vista stretch. A twist of linear thinking into a cubist Resurrection Read More …
The map outlines a valley of cities. A valley of history. Along the ramparts one can catch a view of the hill across the valley. A village that neighbours Rothenrburg. Inside the walls the St Read More …
Somewhere in the records of history the symbol of a pretzel in the street facing peak of a guild house was a “billboard” that this was a baker. To this day this house is still Read More …
Touring around the ravished and restored cities of Germany a visual emblem of hope emerged as we rounded the corner. Swinging on tree branches were Easter eggs. Eggs strung on winter dead branches coloured in Read More …
In the museum of musical machines an awareness of the evolution of digitized instructions emerges on cylinders, punch-cards and discs. Before the “computer” these devices were the advent of a new technology — the advent Read More …
Overlooking the Rhine River a castle demarks the kingdom. Actually it towers over the subject lands of history. Travelling through the UNESCO site in the Rhine Gorge brings history to the present. The conversion of Read More …
The pruning hook was once a sword, a weapon of not so mass destruction, and has fallen on hard times. Vineyards, fruit trees, berry bushes and tomatoes still benefit from pruning. The yellow fields of Read More …
In planted gardens there tends to be an obsessive attention to orderliness. Rows,edges,borders,weeds,wilted blooms and spectrum. The gardens at Keukenhof provided a morning of disorganized delight in a playground of rigid possibility. Tulips,whether seen in Read More …
Between Fall and Spring there is a winter. Winter for novelists has been about discontent and sleep. Winter for weather has been cold in the north, hot in the south. Winter in biology has been Read More …