Month: May 2023

Building ships and boats (3)

After India and Oman, have a look at West Africa. The Niger river is the Mississippi of this part of the world. The town of Mopti houses the river’s most important port. From here boats leave to the villages of the inland delta, a huge swamp, the major agricultural production area of the Sahel. A shipbuilding yard in Mopti produces the wooden boats.

One of the river boats about to depart
Inside the shipyard
Everything is done by hand, all the materials, even the nails, are recycled

Street Art from the Long Ago Times

Long before Facebook, TV and other modern waste information hammering systems, even before neon lights, advertisement was typically done by artful raw iron sculptures that withstood decades or centuries without updating.

Nature, Dragons, Biers in a shapes, or Profession Indicators were often depicted in artful raw ion displays beautifully painted.

Street Art

I don’t know how many layers of paint there are on the first photo but this has been a place for ‘communication’ for a very long time. The second photo is from Fresno and is literally ‘Street Art’, the third is also from Fresno’s Tower District and I admire how long it must have taken to do this and the inspiration involved.

Ich weiß nicht, wie viele Farbschichten es auf dem ersten Foto gibt, aber dies war schon sehr lange ein Ort der „Kommunikation“. Das zweite Foto stammt aus Fresno und ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes „Street Art“, das dritte ist ebenfalls aus Fresnos Tower District und ich bewundere, wie lange es dafür gedauert haben muss und welche Inspiration damit verbunden ist.

Streifenkunst

Die Künstlerin Birgit Hölmer nennt ihre abstrakten Klebebilder “Cuts”. Sie verziert seit Jahren die Schaufenster leerstehender Geschäfte mit ihren Werken. Interessant fand ich, dass die Bilder, je nach Beleuchtung und Blickwinkel im Raum zu schweben scheinen.

The artist Birgit Hölmer calls her abstract adhesive pictures “Cuts”. She has been decorating the windows of vacant stores with her works for years. I found it interesting that the pictures seem to float in space, depending on the lighting and angle of view.