demolition - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

August 10, 2024 What has been left

Miscommunication

“Feel like talking to somebody but I just don’t know who
Well, I’m tryin’ to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you”

(Bob Dylan in Million miles)
Liège (B)

March 6, 2024 Street scenes - buildings

Nibble, nibble … who’s eating from my house?

“Nothing’s permanent and nothing lasts,
We’ve sold all the houses so put ’em up fast.
We’re gonna buy up this town
And pull it all down.
How I love to hear the demolition sound
Of concrete crashing to the ground.
Demolition.”

(The Kinks in Demolition)
Eindhoven (NL)

September 22, 2023 What has been left

No feet but a cold wind for these shoes

“Life in her creaking shoes
Goes, and more formal grows,
A round of calls and cues:
Love blows as the wind blows.”

(W.E. Henley no title, A book of verses)
Chaudfontaine (B)

August 30, 2023 What has been left

We have deleted the first floor

“Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.”

(Th. Hardy in The self-unseen”)
Liège (B)

May 21, 2023 What has been left

The Headless Light

“Light, oh where is the light?
Kindle it with the burning fire of desire!
There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame –
is such thy fate, my heart? “

( Rabindranath Tagore in Gitanjali no. 27)
Seraing (B)

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Miscommunication

Nibble, nibble … who’s eating from my house?

No feet but a cold wind for these shoes

We have deleted the first floor

The Headless Light