art objects - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

December 1, 2022 Still Life

Smoking reduces the ability to see!

“The rich man has his motorcar,
His country and his town estate.
He smokes a fifty cent cigar
And jeers at fate.”

(F.P. Adams in Tobogganing On Parnassus)
Ohey (B)

November 18, 2022 Culture of Industry

We are the miners of yesteryear

“Fromm und still ist Bergmanns Art,
Denn er geht auf rauhen Wegen,
Doch ein milder Himmelssegen
Macht sein Loos ihm minder hart.”

(Johann Nepomuk Vogl in Bergmanns Lust)
Genk (B)

November 12, 2022 Still Life

At the seaside dreaming like a child

“When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.”

(R.L. Stevenson in At the sea-side)
Ohey (B)

October 30, 2022 What has been left

Where a worker is turned into an art object

“You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, “Who is that man?”
You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what you’ll say
When you get home”

(Bob Dylan in Ballad of a thin man)
Tilburg (NL)

October 2, 2022 Street Scenes

When there were no dashcams yet

“You always said people don’t do what they believe in,
they just do what’s most convenient, then they repent
And I always said, “Hang on to me, baby, and let’s hope that the roof stays on””

(Bob Dylan in Brownsville girl)
Charleroi (B)

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Smoking reduces the ability to see!

We are the miners of yesteryear

At the seaside dreaming like a child

Where a worker is turned into an art object

When there were no dashcams yet