Category: sculptures
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are, bure, boke #2
The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…
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kafka metro tram
Quadrio Shopping Center, Národní třída, Prague The “moving head” of Franz Kafka (#1), installed outside the Quadria Center in 2014, is by the artist David Černý. The text in image #7 translates as “love somehow doesn’t always triumph over liars or over money” – a pointed allusion to Václav Havel’s slogan “Truth and love must…
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blue + yellow #1
For me, the combination of the primary colors blue and yellow always used to say IKEA. Nowadays it has acquired other connotations. Slava Ukraini! New Zealand, November-December 2000 #1-2 Napier #3-4 Tarradale #5 Rawene #1-4 Whangerei #1-2 Auckland #3 Devonport #4-6 Wellington Singapore December 2005 West Texas April 2011 (# 5 + 6) + April…
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curves #2
#1 Marfa, TX #2 Johor Bahru Feb 2016 #3 Calgary 2016 #1 -3 Clay Ellis exhibition, Third Stake Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 2016 #4 Sun Studio, Memphis, TN, September 2013 #1 Waxworks Museum, Melantrichova St #2 Rudolf Kremlička, mural in Fénix Palace arcade, Wenceslas Square #3 Prague Castle #4 Jan Štursa, statues…
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greenery
kauri forest, Northland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Siena March 2001 #2 Tokyo fish market September 2010 #3 Philadelphia April 2008 #4 Houston July 2011 #5 Whangerei, December 2000 #2 Prague June 2004 Mariánské Lázně June 2004 Amsterdam July 2004 Singapore January 2006 #1-2 Garstang, Lancashire #3 Sissinghurst, Kent June-July 2013
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a beautiful garden next door to history (Prague cemeteries #1)
A post mostly for Czech and Bohemist friends Maestro! You have brought to an end a great work and are departing to eternal sleep. The Czech nation and Prague are burying you in the most sacred place, in Vyšehrad, in the most noble place … In Vyšehrad, seat of the Princess Libuše, you will talk…
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window shopping #2 (Italy)
The mainstream of photographic activity has shown that a Surrealist manipulation or theatricalization of the real is unnecessary, if not actually redundant. Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic than the one perceived by…
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Theodor Adorno’s desk
being a record of the hunt for Theodor Adorno’s desk in Frankfurt am Main on 12 March 2016
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statuesque
Barcelona, April 2015. 1st image is Georg Kolbe’s statue “Dawn” in Mies van der Rohe’s (reconstructed) Barcelona pavilion. Mexico City, February 2018. Parque México (Fuente de los Cántaros, [Fountain of the Pitchers] by José María Fernández Urbina), Museo Soumaya, Palacio de Bellas Artes, street in Condesa district. Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England, April 2018 Wrest Park…
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