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Saturday, February 12, 2011

A Few Steps Back


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File:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Schneelandschaft - 1930.jpg

Snowy landscape
: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1930
(Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern)




Older memories linger longer for good reason.
The past reveals itself a stunning temptress

in technicolor, while the dull present, no longer in play
and practically begging to be sacrificed

to the hungry gods of short term memory loss, remains
all monotones, flat blacks and whites, with the whites
gradually fading, as one moves
a few steps back from the picture
one begins to make out shades of grey.

Still the river runs in but one
direction, even if colorized. And too there's an odd, faint
metallic taste in the water, reminding of
the artificiality of recollection.





http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner_Berge_und_H%C3%A4user_im_Schnee.jpg

Mountain and houses in snow
: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, c .1924
(Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur)

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