My host thought I was #crazy when I said I was #walking to the airport. Funny, I don't feel crazy. 5K any day.
Two #trains #inPassing. #Reflections of each other appear on each other.
Would you ride a #ghosttrain? Don't be afraid it's only #inPassing.
Another #tram #inPassing. I don't carry a #tripod but instead must find places to prop or place the #camera for #longexposure shots. In this way the #architecture or features of a location partially determine the #composition.
Only 11 kilometres to my next #airbnb. Why not #walk through the #forest? I went #offtrail so it turned into a bit more. #pretzelpower. Maybe I bought too many #books.
The #holiday portion of my #trip is nearly over and I'll start #work soon in #Austria (follow @feministclimatechange!) and #Slovenia. I can't begin to #explain any of these images. Sometimes I think I should be in my #studio #working, but this trip has altered my #perspective on the world and on myself more than any previous visit abroad. What's #important to you?
#Dresden is not free from #hate groups such as #Pegida, but there is also an active #antifa and #refugeeswelcome movement. Here and in #America the #haters are loud and visible, but are in fact a small fraction of the populous. My host took me to the home of a #refugee family from #Syria last night where we all just hung out and spoke about daily life and ate a lot together. I believe that #fear comes from #ignorance, so maybe #trust comes from #education and #experience. We are #forsaken by a #government that cuts education spending.
Paduan #rooster (#cock) in #ceramic by #JohannJoachimKaendler at #Meissen 1732. Note the small #cracks and exposed #clayBody. This work is not easy. Me for #scale.
@berniesanders. Side note, my father was enlisted in WWII though he was not a fighting soldier.
#Church and #state with #trams and #pedestrians #inPassing.
Lately, my #Jewish #heritage has been on my mind. I don't usually #identify myself as a #Jew, but the #Nazis would have. I've seen a lot of #swastikas in #Berlin, but only in the context of #education and documentation of #history. #America too must relegate it's historic symbols of #racism to museums denouncing their use. My country was built over the blood of the native people by #slaves. Take a photo of each #confederate statue before tearing them all down because we need to #remember the atrocities of our history, not honor them. This is an image of Berlin #inPassing with #Fernsethurm (TV tower representing #unification) and Jew (me).
In Germany these people would be arrested for the use of such historic gestures and symbols in this demonstration of hate and desire for violence against specific groups of people. Is America foolish enough to need a greater atrocity for white terrorism to be outlawed? The fascists are taking plays from Germany's past, let's use one from the present. We are forsaken by a government that does not prosecute these domestic terrorists, these traitors to our nation. Do not make violence against people but do stand up to a government that condones it.
#Stillness is a #human #construct that does not #exist in physical #reality. Everything is in constant #motion. #PanSteady so the #camera stays #relative to the #subect #inPassing to see that it's actually the #background that's #moving.
#Berlin #tram #inPassing. One #perspective is never enough.