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spring at the lake
Spring in Canada is the promise of a romantic evening that starts with being kicked squarely in the nuts. Spring in Canada is nature’s broken promise. We’re promised flowers and beauty and we get hungover winter. Spring in Canada is a lie. Canada has four seasons alright. Summer, fall, winter and betrayal. Canadian comedian Brittlestar,…
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mostly blues (horizontals #2)
We did a lot of traveling in 2016. I retired from Lancaster University in March, and we returned to Canada after twelve years in the UK in June. Yoke-Sum started teaching at Alberta University of the Arts in the fall. Between visiting family in Singapore and Malaysia for the Chinese New Year and extending the…
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if walls could talk #1
Some walls are alive, blood flows in them, red warm blood pulsates under the thin layer of plaster in the stones … Sometimes when I walk around some wall, I remember the wall that lives in my fantasy, and I am fearful … Mikuláš Medek, diary entry, 13 April 1951 I was in Athens in…
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diverted traffic
I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality…
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Kunsthalle (Berlin walls)
A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a permanent collection. Wikipedia The first gallery shows fragments of the Berlin Wall for sale in shop windows (#1 + 2) or left standing as a tourist attraction. The rest of…
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self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
These were taken at the exhibition Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection at me Collectors Room, Berlin, on 15 March 2016. The closest I’ll ever get to one of the greatest artists of our time.
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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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