transformer houses - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

September 20, 2019 Street Scenes

A chapel in honor of electricity

“streetlights are signs things are ok…
at least we know the streetlight works
electricity is running without problems”

(T.G. Craddock in Electricity On Unnoticed)
Liège B)

August 25, 2017 Street Scenes

For rent under tension

“But if my life is for rent and I don’t learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
’cause nothing I have is truly mine”

(Dido in Life for rent)
Duisburg (D)

February 28, 2016 Street scenes - buildings

“I sing the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.”

(W. Whitman from I sing the body electric)
Liège (B)

December 16, 2015 What has been left Post a Comment

Powerless

“I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
In the bordertowns of despair …”

(Bob Dylan in Dignity)
Liège (B)

September 6, 2014 Street scenes - buildings Post a Comment

The lines of life

The lines of life
“Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden,
Wie Wege sind, und wie der Berge Grenzen.
Was hier wir sind, kann dort ein Gott ergänzen
Mit Harmonien und ewigen Lohn und Frieden.”

(F. Hölderlin in Die Linien des Lebens …)
Herstal (B)

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