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January 26, 2026 Still Life Post a Comment

A stairway for a dream

Mannequins and a stairway in a closed clothing store

“By this stairway narrow, steep,
Thou shalt climb from song to sleep;
From sleep to dream and song once more;—
Sleep well, sweet friend, sleep well, dream deep!”

(Richard W. Gilder in The stairway)
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January 25, 2026 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

Abandoned and forgotten in the rain

A dilapidated industrial storage space after a rain shower

“Soon you will have forgotten all things:
soon all things will have forgotten you.”

(Marcus Aurelius in Meditations 7-21)
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January 23, 2026 Culture of Industry Post a Comment

In the bleakness, some colorful activity

“Mon espérance n’est pas encore perdue,
Ô patrie douce aimée,
de trouver sur ton sol
un coin pour m’y établir
avant que ma fin n’arrive… “

(Darius Milhaud in Chant du laboureur)
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January 1, 2026 Culture of industry - steel industry Post a Comment

A meeting point for wires and tubes

A junction for pipes and disconnected transformer house

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November 22, 2025 Street Scenes Post a Comment

After the kitchen disappeared I’m standing here alone

Kitchen wall in a demolition property with a beech tree

“A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
And closed them beneath the kisses of night.”

(P. B. Shelley in The sensitive plant)
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A stairway for a dream

Abandoned and forgotten in the rain

In the bleakness, some colorful activity

A meeting point for wires and tubes

After the kitchen disappeared I’m standing here alone