Praha, Czech it out…
The facades are covered in delicious pastel shades of blue and green and pink which stimulated my ocular senses so well an overload occurred, causing a second sensory pathway, my olfactory system, to detect the scent of lilac. (THANK YOU because the river smelled of shit.)
It’s been awhile, so I will start off these posts with a song by Free Energy. I think it sums up, for me, the atmosphere of Berlin as Spring breaks through and Summer approaches and the imminent _____ .
Take a look inside…
Quite beautiful inside. Lots of light and open spaces. This is the main hall inside the building located at hardenbergstr 33, the UdK.
The interior courtyard. Often occupied by students and wild animals and cigarette smoke.
This hallway exists inside the rear annex, which houses many large studio spaces, including class Schneider. The first door on the left in this photo is one of three studio spaces occupied by class Schneider. My studio rests alllllllltheway at the end of the hall, Raum funfundneunzig a or room 95a.
2nd floor of the rear annex, below is a few the courtyard from this floor.
Here is a photograph of a passage way leading from the student MENSA (the MENSA is a large cafeteria where you’ll likely consume something dunked in butter that will eventually cause disorientation and flu-like symptoms).
The university library!
This one of the many buildings occupied by UdK. It looks identical to the Art and Architecture building, but it actually houses Music and, I think, Performing Arts.
Jewish Memorial, Berlin.
“The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims and other victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae”, one for each page of the Talmud arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38m (7.8’) long, 0.95m (3’ 1.5”) wide and vary in height from 0.2 m to 4.8m (8” to 15’9”). According to Eisenman’s project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.”
Brandenburg Gate, The Sun and Internationalism
A sunny, beautiful day at the Tiegarten with new friends from the group of international students at UdK. Many, many countries represented here, around 14 or 15 I would say…Spain, France, Poland, England, USA, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, Belgium, Russia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan and a few others. Lovely people!
I have rubbed shoulders with tall Dutch girls and bought second-hand running shoes with Nika, a Russian painter with an ambitious drive. There is Till, “the local German,” who took me to a gallery opening of a Parisian photographer. There they served crepe’s, beer, wine and played experimental music.
There are Spaniards, a Pole, a Parisian named Dorothee who is an illustrator and calls me “Naton!” Pronounced, “Nah-ton!”Page 1 of 9
