Winterlake IV

I want to show the solitude, the severe cold and the gloom of the winter, i wanna show, how life is frozen and suffering

The old easter

 

In Germany, the funny easter bunny dominates the easter celebration. But in other places the old themes of sin and penitence still can be found.

Night procession

 

What a night full of secrets. Ceriana/ Italy, the marching in of the "black quarter".

Many ways to carry the cross

 

Easter in Ceriana/ Italy

Frohe Ostern!

 

Happy Easter! Joyeuses Pâques ! Feliz Páscoa !

Obrigada, "Mentes complexas e fascinates"

Caro desconhecido correspondente. Eu nem sei o seu nome. Desculpe, mas eu não posso encontrar seu blog mais nada. Você fechá-la? Portanto, só posso escrever para você aqui no meu blog:

Em primeiro lugar, devo dizer muito obrigado a você. Nosso escrito em linguagem portugies deu-me a ideia de viajar para Lisboa. Foi um bom tempo. Portugies lingua não é muito difícil de impar. Hoje, após estas duas semanas em Lisboa, já que eu posso compreender o Google tradução maschine.

No meu blog você pode encontrar as fotos de Lisboa.

Se quiser continuar a nossa pouca convesation "sobre o oceano" por favor escreva para o meu endereço de e-mail. Gostaria de saber mais sobre a vida no brasil. Mesmo que a nossa conversa chega ao fim, que tenho a dizer "Obrigada" para o nosso contacto. Ele deu-me uma grande quantidade de novas idéias.


Muitos cumprimentos Henry

March 17, 2008 10:27 PM

"Night train to Lisboa".

Come on, join this nighttime trip to Lisboa. Do You know the book "Night train to Lisboa". In this spirit of existential truth all these pictures are made.

Hallo, look in!

Don´t stand outside. Have a look!

New view

You must be able to see old pictures in a new way... and to read the signs on the wall.

Eternal spring

According to its geographic situation near the atlantic ocean, Lisboa has a moderate climate with eternal spring.

Another kind of patterns

Lisboa is the town of glazed tiles and ornaments.

Elevator

As the town has man hills, there is a big need for elevetors. Lisboa has a lot of oldfashioned maschines to move people up and down.

Nightlights

The train station Rossia.

Peace - pace

All races seem to live in peace.

Tejo II

All ways end with a view on the Tejo river. It´s everwhere.

snapshot: free rider

With a bottle of wine in one hand, it´s more comfortable to ride outside the tram on the footboard...

Old and new II

Old ans new encounter in this town.

The old luxury

Many times, you step over the testemonies of a marvellous past, old time, still alive.

Old and new

What I liked best in Lisboa was the young atmosphere in the old surroundings.

Lisboa, Belem and all the colours...

This is the story of a trip to Lisboa. Let us beginn with the colours of Belem. Yes, this was a foto. And the colours are real. You´ll find these old houses near the riverside in Belem, a western suborb of Lisbon. The ocean is near, the monotony of grey and blue. People here have the desire to add strong colours to their lifes, just the same as people in the desert or people in poverty.

Colours of Belem II

The old houses in Belem are full of coulours. They were used as boatshouses and fishmarkets. You may recognise that the blue house of this photo is the same as on the painting above.

Torre de Belem - the old Statue of Liberty

In the old days of Columbus and Vasco di Gama, the last building before the big ocean was the torre de belem. A little fortress some kilometers out of Lisboa. In that time, it was the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty at the same time: the last landmark of civilisation on the way out into to danger and the first sign of good return on the way back. In even older times the pharos of Alexandria had that function. My interpretation of the photo wants to show the mystery and the powerfull (as well threatening as consoling) aura of that place.

Night is coming

You heart the boats and the bird of the river, you smell water, oil and fish, you feel the last warmth of the day and you see night coming... then you know how life feels.

with the boot over the river

Take the time to go on the other side of the river in the last minutes of daylight.

the Tejo

Wherever you go, a glimps of the Tejo accompanies you.

Night lights on the river

The river is not quick too, it´s lazy, oily and dirty. But still it´s showing all reflections of life. Like an old man.

town on the hills

If you want to discover Lisbon by feet, dont forget: it´s a town on seven hills.

Light and heaven

Lisboa has wonderfull lights all day long, a wonderfull heaven and lots of churches to poke their steeple into heaven.

Go around by tram

No chance to go by car through this town. You will never find a parking. Enjoy tram line 28, which leads you into the old town, which was founded in the old arabian time. In this time the name of Lisbon was Al-Aschbouna. You still feel the old atmosphere when you walk through the quarter Alfama.

crazy times slaves

In the subway you find a painting which shows, what the lisbon people hate most: to look at the watch and to ran around like a brainless timeslave.

time to say good bye

In other towns its very rare that you can study how houses are rotting. Here you can see their beautifull death and you can sob, let your tear fall down, you can feel the missery about the destroyed old beauty.

time for the important things

The old is breaking down and at the same time new things begin. Where time is not so important, you can feel the pulse of life.

Lazy afternoon

Did the Kinks invent their song here? You sit in a street café, drinking galao or sweet portwine, time goes by, an your eyes are no longer willing to open wide... its the magic of an old town.

Time to talk

All the days in Lisboa, I didn´t see an internetcafé. But that was all right, because people had something else: Time to talk!

High tech

How fast technologic systems can change! But this technic was soldid and enduring. How will the leftovers of our technology look like in 100 years?

The old tramway

Sometimes my photos just show mere reality (-:

Some days in Lisboa

Of course, not all my pictures are abstract. With some you can make quite conventional postcards. Last week, I made a tripp to Lisbon, where time seems to stand still...

Self portrait II

That was a real hard drive today. So many abstract patterns, so many theory. That´s why I say goodbye with a second self portrail, which at least has to do a little bit with reality. But even in this picture I do not want to pretend, that this is a photo. That´s why it must not be a perfect photoshop work. I like to have a spectator, who realises, that this is a painting, a creation... art. The spectator does not whant lies. I don´t tell hin, my picture shows realty. Of course it began as a photo, but in the end it was a dream, a an idea, a construction. All that means the same. Every construction began as a dream.

Small outlay, big income

With a minimum of efforts, pattern produce a maximum of interest.

The way back...

Of course, there is a way back from abstraction to reality. Patterns can be combined with elements of reality, with real photo elements.

Find the pattern in everything

The same kind of patterns, which you find with big telescopes in the far away universes, you will find in the smallest details under a microscope. The pattern is everywhere, it´s main principle of every structure. Here yiu see some knots in a textile fabric from guatemlala. shurely, some DNS probes would look just the same.

This was a newspaper print

with some investigation, even a newspaperprint can be changed into a pattern

Patterns by mirroring

Here is an example for the pattern production by mirroring

patterns are keys

patterns are keys, if you decipher them, you find the knots to understand the hidden secrets of every structure. They can tell whole storries, such as the X-ray image.

Patterns are powerfull

Patterns are powerfull and full of mysteries

The holiness of patterns

Patterns are somehow holy. It is not merely by chance, that the old islamic art is full of patterns. The patterns are pure harmony, they show the harmony of the univers, the principles of its structure. They are like music and maths formulars. They are perfect and absolute. Patterns teach us, to love colours and to praise this wonderfull univers. Even the galaxies dance in the wonderfull harmony of spiral paterns.

Many ways to produce a pattern

There are many ways to produce a pattern. By mirroring or multipication you can transform every photo into a pattern. But of course, you can also start with a object, which has pattern elements in itself, here for example a decoration element of the alhambra.

When I was a child...

When I was a child... I had a kaleidoscope. For hours I could sit and watch the mystical pattern of the colours in the glastube. That was my "you tube". Today I remind the patterns and I want to reconstruct them with special photos.