walls - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

August 11, 2021 Culture of industry - steel industry

The ship of industry is stranded

“Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier far than these.”

(Chr. G. Rossetti no title in Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book)
Liège (B)

August 1, 2021 Street Scenes

The alley that is happy with all the electricity

“An alley never concerns itself. An
alley always concerns the social
geometry that shapes it—a pompous

boulevard’s way of saying
alleys will gladly be whatever cities
want ‘em to be.”

(H. Ostrom in Alleys)
Liège (B)

April 6, 2021 What has been left

Dreams on a wall

"And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose slowly, slowly,
Dimming,
Hiding,
The light of my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky,
The wall."

(J.M. Langston Hughes in As I grew older)
Amay-Ombret (B)

January 30, 2021 What has been left

We met at the old factory wall

“challenge:
called out to play …
called out to play …

response:
their friendship
does not all please
their fathers”

(anonymous haiku)
Liège (B)

June 21, 2020 Culture of Industry

The creation of a wall

“When the creation was new
and all the stars shone in their first splendour,
the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang
‘Oh, the picture of perfection! the joy unalloyed!'”

(Rabindranath Tagore in Gitanjali no. 78)
Namur (B)

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The ship of industry is stranded

The alley that is happy with all the electricity

Dreams on a wall

We met at the old factory wall

The creation of a wall