Tag: mural

Connect with someone today!

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Although the words on this mural read: “Family is everything” I think “family” can be defined in much broader terms than merely blood relations.

Connection can happen through physical touch – but it doesn’t need to. The internet is much maligned these days because the role it plays in agitation and false information but we shouldn’t forget how it can bring people together. Bushboy who came up with today’s prompt is in Australia. I am in Germany. Yet we share a connection via our posts and photos.

Here is the whole mural:

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Connection.

Modern times

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“Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”

Salvador Dali

Linked to Travel with Intent where more posts inspired by the Dali quote can be found.

Nations in Peace

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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”

Thomas Huxley

This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).

Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.

Throughout the ages

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This mural was created in 2005 on the walls of an underpass by a dedicated arts class of the local Carl-Benz-Gymnasium in Ladenburg. It illustrates figures from the history of the town.  Here are the figures in historical sequence:

  • Ladenburg was founded by the Romans and an important centre from about 100 – 300 A.D.
  • The Roman period was followed by medieval courts with knights, ladies and jesters.
  • In the 13th and 14th century Ladenburg was the centre of conflict between the bishops of Worms and the Pfalzgrafen (Count Palatines).
  • In 1817, Karl  Freiherr von Drais invented a forerunner (sic!) of the bicycle and his first ride took place from Mannheim to Schwetzingen passing Ladenburg.
  • Transportation stayed important as Carl Benz, the inventor of the first automobile, lived here and his wife Bertha Benz undertook the first long distance ride of 106 km in 1888 in the area.
  • The next figures show children at play, a dog, a girl in a 50s pettycoat with a cigarette in her hand, an 80s punk, and a millenial – possibly a self-image of the creators of the mural.

And in case you missed the cat:

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For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: graffiti & murals.

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