11.20.2008

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above: Barcelona, Spain. Damien Pitter
below: St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. Annie Dow.

5 comments:

  1. I'm not sure what either picture is exactly, but both seem to be guarding something important. I love the color (or lack-of, I guess) and the light.

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  2. CONTEXT: This is a doorbell, around the corner from our apartment. It seems, somehow, to have been burned, which I particularly enjoy because of the sticker in the top right, which posts a number to call for emergencies. A good example of the way in which things in Europe are not all shiny, the way they seem to be in much of North America. Over the centuries, people here seem to have gotten used to the fact that sometimes things get weathered and worn (or burned and slightly melted), but they still work, and so there they are, continuing their shabby work.

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  3. Damien: Over the centuries, people here seem to have gotten used to the fact that sometimes things get weathered and worn (or burned and slightly melted), but they still work, and so there they are, continuing their shabby work.
    Sounds like how I describe myself... shabbily functional despite weathering...

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  4. CONTEXT: the reason i like churches so much is that they are inevitably so much bigger than yourself. medieval artists built entire cathedrals and never even put their names on it...people transcribed and drew on entire Bibles without taking credit for their artwork...i like the selflessness in that.

    this is a massive relief/statue that is very to the side of the Basilica, and I'd have missed it entirely if the light hadn't been shining on it like that. It felt so big, so majestic, but not still---moving forward, graining towards SOMETHING...

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  5. i like churches as well...but the bigger than us thing creeps me.
    reminds me of hunchback of norte dame...and not so much the talking gargoyles as frolo and his devilness :)

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