statues - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

November 1, 2024 Religious objects 1 Comment

Behind my back the blues sounds

“Play the blues for me.
Play the blues for me.
No other music
‘Ll ease my misery.”

(Langston Hughes in Misery)
Leuven (B)

December 31, 2023 Still Life

The miner who lost his head

“Ich möchte traun nichts anders sein,
Als wie ein Bergmann nur allein.
Zur Hälfte heim im nächt’gen Graus,
Und halb in Gottes Licht zu Haus.”

(J.N. Vogl in Bergmannslied)
Genk (B)

October 28, 2023 Religious objects

The Birth of Mother Mary

“There, in that other world, what waits for me?
What shall I find after that other birth?
No stormy, tossing, foaming, smiling sea,
But a new earth.”

(M.Coleridge in Poems no. 201)
Valkenburg (NL)

June 22, 2023 Religious objects

A blessed connection point for the fire brigade

Dison (B)

January 25, 2023 Religious objects

In a corner Mary waits for the May flowers

“Dann Blümlein alle,
Heraus, heraus!
Der Mai ist kommen,
Der Winter ist aus.”

(L. Müller in Trockne Blumen)
Liège (B)

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Behind my back the blues sounds

The miner who lost his head

The Birth of Mother Mary

A blessed connection point for the fire brigade

In a corner Mary waits for the May flowers