Color

“Lightroomed”

Due to the generosity of the LINC Library, Greeley, CO, I have begun to learn how to edit digital images. I was tutored on one of the library’s computers. LINC is one of the few libraries in the US with free access to both LIGHTROOM and PHOTOSHOP photography editing software.

A Berlin Country Winter Sky

Lichtenrade

The whole southern edge of the Berlin Wall runs along the boundary between City and County: Berlin and Brandenburg. In the dead of winter, one can quietly contemplate the distant horizon. In the summers, one can meditate on the fertile fields growing right up to the historic and current borderline.

Rolling over the Wall

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin

 Throughout the Mitte, Central Berlin, the former Berlin Wall is marked by hand carved sandstone bricks. The double line crosses streets, sidewalks and across buildings’ lobbies.

 How long does it take for humans to no longer recognize the significance of these bricks and allow them to simply fade into the urban landscape?

Smack Down the Middle of the Havel River

Heilandskirche, Sacrow

 People from the West had to be careful not to swim or boat to close to the border. Otherwise, a simple summer’s outing would turn into a multiday imprisonment followed by deportation back to the West.

Why Art?

Eastside Gallery, Berlin

Along the longest remaining piece of the Wall is art. Facing the street are global commissioned pieces and facing the river, free style graffiti.

 What is the place of art in creating a Memorial Space?

First You Whitewash…

Mauerpark, Berlin

What are the unwritten rules concerning when one can whitewash over another artist’s work?

Souvenirs

Berlin Wall Memorial Park, Berlin

Souvenir hunters soon descended on the Berlin Wall to collect evidence. Along the Berlin Wall Museum are examples of the remains of the reinforced concrete after people have chipped away samples.

 An infamous object transformed into a collectable.

Together in Freedom

Bornholmer Strasse Border Crossing, Berlin

 This spray-painted message is just outside the first gate to be crossed on November 8, 1989. Is it a statement or a question? (Note the anarchy symbol below it.)

Low Populated Messed Fencing

Teltow

 Deep in the rural central southern walled section, is a rare example of metal messed fencing. Nature has taken over the role of destroying its purpose of creating isolation.