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June 20, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

No more ships to load cement

A loading facility on the quay of an abandoned cement factory

“Le silence est l’âme des choses
Qui veulent garder leur secret.
Il s’en va quand le jour paraît,
Et revient dans les couchants roses.”

(M. Rollinat in Le silence)
Oupeye (B)

June 18, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

A monument to remember me

A concrete column at an abandoned cement factory

“Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.”

(Ch.G. Rossetti in Remember)
Oupeye (B)

May 27, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

“I left all my dreams and hopes
Buried under tobacco leaves
It’s not always easy kicking someone out
Gotta wait a while—it can be an unpleasant task
Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up
And tears or not, it’s too much to ask”

(Bob Dylan in Floater (Too Much to Ask))
Houthalen-Helchteren (B)

April 13, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

Ode to the container constructors

“Vorwärts, und nicht vergessen,
worin unsere Stärke besteht!
Beim Hungern und beim Essen,
Vorwärts, nie vergessen
die Solidarität!”

(Bertolt Brecht in Das Solidaritätslied)
Awans (B)

January 19, 2025 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

A lazy Sunday afternoon for containers

“It’s a hazy afternoon
And I know a place that’s quiet, except for daisies running riot
And there’s no one passing by it to see
Come spend this lazy afternoon with me”

(B. Streisand in Lazy Afternoon)
IJmuiden (NL)

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No more ships to load cement

A monument to remember me

Boulevard of broken dreams

Ode to the container constructors

A lazy Sunday afternoon for containers