What is distance
What is close by
Sleeping for 8 hours
on a bus, a train,
or on your flying carpet
You wake up where you are
and walk
Our feelings know no distance
they are there and go on
In 15 hours by train, you cover half
of that country, no borders to be seen
What hurts more than this walk
to an 8 hours flight up north
I feel connected not apart.
A walk through the drizzle of a Sunday afternoon brought me to the Nordsternpark in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The grounds once constituted a coal mine complex. From the mid-90s onwards it has been transformed into a park. Reminders of the industrial past next to the Rhine-Herne Canal remain.
The former coal washery on the horizon. Below, you will find details of that building.
Crossing the Emscher. Used as an open waster water canal since the 19th century.Today, the river is subject to a large-scale process of renaturation that is believed to be completed by 2020.
Coal mine washery building and coal conveyor belt.
Getting closer.
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Sparsha (Sanskrit “touch”) is an art exhibit at the Kunstmuseum Bochum. You find works from a variety of artists and time periods with relations to India. These cultural productions are exhibited on two floors. You find works of Shweta Bhattad, Anita Dube, Chitra Ganesh, Sunil Gawde, Subodh Gupta, Subodh Kerkar, Mahirwan Mamtani, Monali Meher, Pushpamala N., Amit Pasricha, Tejal Shah, Viveek Sharma, Sudarshan Shetty, Mithu Sen, L.N. Tallur, and Thukral & Tagra. Sparsha is part of a series of exhibitions that discusses the interaction of religion and Continue reading
This is a note from 22 Nov 2013.
After a day’s stroll through Delhi’s streets together with a friend of mine, a particular scene stayed on my mind. Since my arrival in India, I have noticed an absence of women at food stalls. There are many women who sell vegetables and jewellery along the streets but when it comes to the preparation and selling of food, I had never encountered a woman being in charge of it before. Yet, today, in a rather quiet street close to Jhandewalan Metro Station and almost in front of a secondary all-boys school, there, I saw a woman and a man working together at the same food stall preparing chapatti.
Immediately, my attention was caught by this sight. How unusual for a public space, I thought, whereas inside, at home, it is mostly women cooking – and not only in India. She stays on my mind, her long grey hair and deep blue saree – or rather her smile and shiny eyes. At least that is how I remember her now.
Join in and listen to this song, sung so beautifully by Urna Chahar-Tungchi. You won’t be able to escape the cinema of the mind.
I see a fire place, when I close my eyes …
Touching.
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