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Growth and decay / Groei en verval

01 Sunday Nov 2020

Posted by dragermeurtant in death, Decay, mushrooms, nature, natuur, outdoor, photography, Uncategorized

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bos, forest, fotografie, groei, growth, mushrooms, nature, natuur, paddestoelen, photography

In autumn, of all seasons, the co-existence of growth and decay is most palpable.

In de herfst, van alle seizoenen, is het naast elkaar bestaan van groei en verval het meest tastbaar.

A mycelium of mushrooms feeds and decomposes plant material into organic matter vital for growth of other life.

Het mycelium van paddenstoelen groeit op en verteert plantaardig materiaal in organische materie, die vitaal is voor ander leven.

The form can be delicate and tiny (1)

De vorm kan delicaat en klein zijn (1)

The form can be delicate and tiny (2)

De vorm kan delicaat en klein zijn (2)

The form can be delicate and tiny (3)

De vorm kan delicaat en klein zijn (3)

Sometimes shape is complex and huge

Soms is de vorm complex en reusachtig

Growing in a row

Groei op rij

The color grey

De kleur grijs

The color yellow

De kleur geel

The color red (and white)

De kleur rood (en wit)

Suillellus luridus. Easily mistaken for Boletus Satanus or Devil’s bolete (Rubroboletus satanas), the latter being poisonous.

Suillellus luridus. Kan verwisseld worden met Boletus Satanus or Devil’s bolete (Rubroboletus satanas), waarbij de laatste giftig is.

Growth started and even before a mature form was reached, decay started. A fixed condition becomes fluid.

Groei begon en zelfs voordat een volwassen vorm werd bereikt, startte het verval. Een solide vorm wordt vloeibaar.

Variation in matter

Verschil in materie

Up to the next story

Verder naar het volgende verhaal

Snow in the High Moors / Hautes Fagnes / Hohes Fenn

13 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by dragermeurtant in landscape, nature, outdoor, photography, poetry, Uncategorized

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Belgie, Belgique, fotografie, Hautes-Fagnes, Heuvels, Hills, Hohes Fenn, landscape, photography, poetry, Snow, Winter, woods

A return to the country visited as a kid led to Hautes Fagnes / Hohes Fenn or the High Moors, in Belgium.

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In the eastern, German-speaking part, close to Eupen, presence and memories mingled

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Thursday February 27th, winter arrived, a rare guest this year

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The snow creates silence, when it falls

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Most sounds in the landscape are absorbed, and trees bear heavy white loads, branches bent

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A shed is a hide-out for memories

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And only when the snow is melting, returns the sound of water

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Nearby, dripping from branches or roofs, at distance, the sound of the rivulet running down-hill

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the stream soon retarded and widening into a bassin

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Then leaving around the corner

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Text and images (c) Drager Meurtant, February 2020

Bahnbetriebswerk Bayerischer Bahnhof

20 Thursday Feb 2020

Posted by dragermeurtant in Decay, destruction, outdoor, photography, street photography, structure, Uncategorized

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abandoned, Bahnhof, Bayerischer, fotografie, Grafitti, History, photography, railway, urban

With railways becoming the most important means of transport over land in the 19th century, repair units also had to be established.

Already in 1842, a repair unit for trains was established south of Leipzig (Germany) as the “Bahnbetriebswerk Bayerischer Bahnhof”.
Build in a half-circle, the repair unit allowed several locks to be examined and repaired.
During the second world-war, heavy damage was suffered, with some units repaired after the war, untill around 2000 it was no longer was kept functioning.

Now, kids can play with skates, and grafitti artists take the opportunity to decorate the abandoned place.

Bahnbetriebswerk Bayerischer Bahnhof

Turning circle allowing trains to enter different sections of the repair unit.

 

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“Hush, perfection has no name”.

 

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The inner state

 

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Broken windows (the cat’s view)

 

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The circle and the pitts

 

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A laugh at a time brings mircacles

 

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The crane to lift

 

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Heating

 

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Transport of paint tubes

 

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At the turning point

 

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“Hola”

 

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Unit to steer currents

Beds and Fences

06 Friday Dec 2019

Posted by dragermeurtant in death, Decay, History, kunst, landscape, outdoor, photography, street photography, Uncategorized

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bed spiral, fence, fotografie, gate, landscape, las hurdes, philosophy, photography, rural, Spain

People often buy a bed, when entering adulthood. A bigger bed, when living (and sleeping) together.

When getting old, the number of hours in bed often increases, even when sleep is more disturbed and irregular.

Then comes the time, that those who used the bed, will pass away.

In some regions, people tend to use the bed spiral base, that is left alone, for other purposes. Preferred is their use as part of a fence or gate.

Walking in Las Hurdes (Spain) in 2018, we encountered several such transformations.

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Bed spiral turned into a fence (1)

 

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Bed spiral turned into a fence (2)

 

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Bed spiral turned into a fence (3)

 

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Bed spiral turned into a fence (4)

One must not be surprised by the fact, that in the same environment, the number of abandoned houses is high.

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House abandoned in Las Hurdes (Spain)

It need more research, to establish whether the transformation of (usable?) bed spirals inherited from parents or grandparents, is caused by unwillingness to sleep on such elements earlier used by people that have passed away, or by the wish to have better quality. Yet, the transformation into fences or gates has significance as signal of the border of states of existence.

 

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“Curiosity and strangers / are good partners” (Las Hurdes, Spain, photos and text Drager Meurtant, 2018-2019)

A house in the mountains

30 Wednesday Oct 2019

Posted by dragermeurtant in art, Decay, Greece, History, landscape, outdoor, photography, poetry, poezie, street photography, Uncategorized

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abandonned, bergen, Decay, departure, fotografie, Greece, Home, landscape, Macedonia, mountains, quiet, remote

There was someone, who built a home.

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There was a home, built by someone, once.

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Friends helped at times, I’m sure.

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Someone is no more, at least not here.

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(Perhaps this someone, is now in a senior home elsewhere)

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The home gradually, becomes less, and less.

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A view from the kitchen window

 

Outside, flowers grow.

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(Travel in Macedonia, Greece. West of Orma, in the mountains, May 2019.)

(c) Drager Meurtant

Ancient Stones

19 Wednesday Jun 2019

Posted by dragermeurtant in archeology, Greece, History, landscape, outdoor, philosophy, photography, society, Uncategorized

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archeology, fotografie, Greece, History, landscape, Macedonia, Petres, philosophy, photography

In countries like Greece, the visitor must rely on stones to get a grasp of history and important developments of culture.

During a short journey in May 2019, In the department of Pella, Macedonia, Greece, we followed signs indicating “Ancient Archeological Site of Petres”.

When arriving there, and having parked the rented car and after walking about 400 m, the most surprising elements to us, were ancient big jars, present in many houses, that had been installed to store water (photo 1).

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Looking at the plan of the small city, with rectangular houses, one starts to imagine people walking here, more than two thousand years ago. Discussing family affairs, the harvest, trade, threats… (photo 2).

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The firm conclusion was: use talk, or writing, as social medium.

Information about the history of Ancient Petres:

“The ancient city occupies a natural mound to the NW of the village of Petres, in the region of Florina. Its total area reached 15-20 hectares and was protected by a fortification wall built of poros stone. The enclosed area included houses, and public buildings erected in a free layout, separated by streets, 2.5 m. wide. The city was founded in the 3rd century B.C. by Antigonos Gonatas, it flourished in the 2nd century B.C. and it ceased to exist in the 1st century B.C. It was again inhabited in the Roman period, but it moved to a different site.

The archaeological evidence leads to the conclusion that the city owed its development to its strategic position on the Egnatia Road and to its commercial exchanges with other Greek cities. The excavations of the site revealed useful information on the types of the private houses, which were continuously used in north-west Macedonia as late as the 19th century.

Excavations on the site were begun in 1982 and are still in progress, along with restoration and consolidation work of the ancient remains.

Wikimapia, with use of infomation of: http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh352.jsp?obj_id=2653,

 

Judges Report Final Round Figurative Art in Three Dimensions

31 Friday May 2019

Posted by dragermeurtant in abstract, art, Art competition, Dada, Figurative art, installation, kunst, philosophy, photography, street photography, structure, Uncategorized

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Judges Report Final Round Figurative Art in Three Dimensions

XXth Competion at Art Center VIMOMUX, year 2019

After thorough deliberation, trying to reach consensus and equal imput of the members of the jury, a final decision was reached on the three submitted art-peaces created by Drager Meurtant (NL, 1951)

During the process, the five members from the jury weighed the pros and cons of artistic protuberances, by applying the elementary principles prescribed for separation of figurative versus abstract (Instruction Report #A12B-567, 1983).

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“Sorry Jean”

Art-peace One: “Sorry Jean” (2018)

Comments: the raw, primitive nature of the semi-figurative concrete relief, associates firmly with the wall and hence, the placement creates an actuality in addressing contemporary trauma. The integrative character expressed by the circumstantial placement on pre-existing background, makes the art an holistic event. The wholeness further enhances the pertinent relation with contemporary queries into the genesis of soul as sole force feeding eternality.

Decision: accept.

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“Solitary Traveller”

Art-peace Two: “Solitary Traveller” (2018)

Comments: this ready-made, sculptural figuration really transpires the solitude, as the title implicates. By referring to the multiple miniature quadrants, the depth of research is enhanced, for the validity of use of objects – that in their history served a different role – in art practice, as this was first employed by Marcel Duchamp (Bicycle Wheel, 1913) or even earlier by the DaDa artist Elsa, the Baroness of Freytag-Loringhoven, with her Enduring Ornament (1913).

The blackish color reflects the loss of relevance of this art-medium for many art-historians. The use of one-sided lighting anguishes the perception by the viewer, in it’s ineluctable blow of the flow of time towards the end, without escape. In this way, the figure announces death, as already can be derived from the two title words.

Decision: accept.

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“The Triangle”

Art-peace three: “The triangle” (2019)

Comments: the narrow margin lifting this work from two- into three dimensions serves a function as to elude from fixed barriers, frames and borders. The material applied, and the colors that follow at (superb) lighting are enchanting the spectator. With experience, however, the true meaning comes into vision: a play with prejudice, superstition and ordinary judgement. The host – when placed oppositive this well-crafted work, becomes a graft not able to suppress the primary reaction of being placed in a hostile environment. This conflict deepens the experience, since doubt opens the mind.

Decision: accept (special honor).

Members of the Jury:

Jacques de Santo Torres (chair)

Anna Viltan Navon (secretary)

Karl Hütting Wltack (member)

Vladimir Brosvokic (member)

Faith Runungongo (member)

Sense or no sense

14 Thursday Mar 2019

Posted by dragermeurtant in death, defense, internet, kunst, mental health, philosophy, photography, poem, poetry, poezie, society, street photography, Uncategorized

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antenna, antenne, connection, coping, Dada, digital, fotografie, gedicht, gezondheid, health, internet, kunst, philosophy, photography, poetry, poezie, verbinding

Where and when sense switches to no – sense, is illustrated by three poems and images.

Ears

The size of ears / devised to hear signals

of distant life

parallels / the loss of perception

from life nearby.

big ears

 

Call center

“Think simple and relax:

by moving this job to Asia / the lady has more time/ to go shopping

and that’s good/ for our economy.”

call center

 

Digital death

We are digitally / close to death

after loosing three / of our passwords

and having forgotten / the birthdate of

our parents.

The screen will snow / and our ears hear

the whistle of / the amazone

going by.

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(photos and text (c) Drager Meurtant)

Parque Tématico del Granite, Los Santos

04 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by dragermeurtant in abstract, art, assemblage, installation, kunst, landscape, nature, outdoor, photography, poetry, rocks, street photography, Uncategorized

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abstract, fotografie, installation, kunst, landscape, photography, poetry, Salamanca, sculpture parc, Spain

In the province of Salamanca in Spain, close to the village Los Santos, there is the amazing Parque Tématico del Granite de los Santos.

Driving small and quiet road from Salamanca to Bejar, the parc is on the left. Huge blocks of granite, derived from nearby quarry, are placed as installations (see photos).

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“if you are able / to put stones together / likes tones in a composition / the wind will whistle compliments.”

 

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“The stand-still of stones is a dream that moves at a speed, unvisible for the human eye”

 

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“The clang of rocks, hit by a hammer, produces a pain that can be tolerated by sculptors”

 

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The artist puts a metal figure on rock: stone age preceded iron age.

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the last sentence I leave to you…

Moment

01 Thursday Mar 2018

Posted by dragermeurtant in abstract, art, Dada, kunst, mental health, nature, philosophy, photography, poem, poetry, poezie, street photography, structure, Uncategorized

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abstract, condition humaine, coping, Dada, essential, fotografie, gedicht, kunst, philosophy, photography, poem, poetry

When emotions no longer
are stirred by elements
that pass.
When anger is frozen
by lack of a proper
target.
Then comes the moment
to turn the page.
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Wanneer emoties niet langer
worden opgeroepen door elementen
die langs komen,
Als woede is bevroren
bij gebrek aan een geschikt
doel,
Dan komt het moment
de bladzij om te slaan.
(c) Drager Meurtant, text & photo, March 1, 2018
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