I thought I’d try something different for this challenge. A few weekends ago I went to the Waldkunstweg in Darmstadt, the forest art path. There are art objects made of mostly natural materials on display along a forest ramble. This one is called “Forest House” … Continue reading Twig by Twig
I’ve been walking the Waldkunstpfad (Forest Art Walk) in Darmstadt and the exhibits are often intriguing. This particularly was as their was no plaque to give the name of the piece and the artist. What do you think it could be? Bearing in mind that … Continue reading Art in the Forest
Paula references W.B.Yeats in her April Words of Wisdom with a quote where he sees life as a spiral leading upward. The German poet Hermann Hesse, just twelve years Yeats’ junior, expressed a very similar thought when he said: We are not going in circles, … Continue reading Stepping Ever Upward
The people of Darmstadt put their first Grand Duke on a really high pole. A really long one. They loved him so much that instead of calling him by his official name Ludewig I they call him “Langer Lui” (Long Louis) still today.
Here is slightly closer look of Lui.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Long Items
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At least, when they are just sitting there (the monument looked clean all round).
This is the Alice monument for the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine in Darmstadt. Incidentally, she was the second eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary of Great Britan and Irleand which – if my thinking is correct – made her the great-great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and also the maternal great-grandmother of her husband, Prince Philip. Her memory is alive and well in Darmstadt as the hospital she founded in 1869 is still going strong; I myself was a patient there for a couple of days a decade ago.
The area north of the main station in Darmstadt has seen almost unbelievable building activities during the last decade. About 10 years ago we used to run through overgrown empty lots.
Looking to the right.
and looking to the left, the reflection and the building itself.
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This is last weekend’s sky. It’s actually raining today and I haven’t had my camera out yet. So this is reminiscing.
Weekend Sky
While a child latched on a leg might be cumbersome, this naked statue doesn’t seem encumbered by the child nor by any clothes or a longing for decency. Even so, the sculpture is called “The threatened one” (Der Bedrohte) and I’m wondering …
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