
Veiled Rubble

“May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention” is from John o’Donohue’s poem “A blessing for presence”
Unfortunately meanwhile there are plenty of them, again.
In Munich, blue and red are the signature colors of the local soccer teams and hence used in all battles for street visibility. Here the “FCB” of FC Bayern is made unreadable with the blue of TSV 1860, the underdogs in local competition since the 60s.
That red painted window frames perfectly contrasted the fresh green of the tree, and in the end that image won over other frames with interesting reflections.
This image would work in monochrome, too. But I found it even more convincing in color, in spite of not having cranked up saturation to 11. The spring related nuances of the color green hit a soft spot with me since I first saw young rice plants. And then, isn’t green a truly positive color?
As much as I love a stay in (almost) any city, as much I miss nature in so many of its aspects. When I found this roots pattern on the ground, the image found its way onto the sensor almost by itself.
For background information see the Hansaviertel website.
The GRIPS Theatre was the first emancipatory (in U.S. terms probably “communist”) children’s theatre in post-WWII Berlin. It certainly was a child of its time – Berlin still in its rebuilding stage, governed by Social Democratic Mayors, but still distressed by not only the ghosts of the Third Reich – and offered new perspectives to…