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  • Letters and meaning

    Detlef 1:48 am on June 27, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Letters, , , Pictures, , Words

    What’s the meaning of a letter or a number? We are so fixed on the meaning of writing that we tend to forget the lettering over it. Knowing the letters we forget about them. Not knowing them – we see them very clearly, as in this picture. We see the message “loves you”, which doesn’t make any “sense” as such – so we are able to concentrate on the appearance of the letters, on their “gestalt”:

    writing
    By Detlef.

    This photograph of a graffiti on a wall leaves room for the contemplator’s mind to resonate according to its own pattern – not necessarily the pattern of the meaning of letters or numbers:

    Graffiti_3
    By Detlef.

    The inverse function of this approach would be to try to find meaning in nature. These drops on a blade of grass could signify a punch-card code or a Morse alphabet:

    Wet Grass
    By Detlef.

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  • Eternal exchange

    Detlef 10:10 am on June 22, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Goethe, Pictures, , Water

    “The human soul is like water: coming down from the sky, rising up to the sky it has to go down to earth again: an eternal exchange.”

    My free translation of J.W. Goethe’s poem “Gesang der Geister ueber den Wassern”

    Drop
    By Detlef.

    Alas: we should be careful with the word “eternal”, as even the source of all energy on earth, our sun, has a past, a present, a future – and an end, as this fine work by my friend Tim Grosvenor shows.

    Or might even the end of the sun be just a passage within the “eternal” circle of life, the start of something fresh and new like a clear drop of water?

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  • Gates in the cerebral palace

    Detlef 5:06 am on June 17, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Age, Pictures,

    As we are getting older some of our capabilities get rusty. Some gates in the cerebral palace have been closed for a long time. Perhaps they were locked after a disgrace, perhaps pain was involved. Perhaps there simply was no longer an opportunity to use certain rooms – as keeping up the others involved so much care and work.

    Closed Gate
    By Detlef.

    So one day you find yourself in front of a barred gate, which has obviously been closed a long time, and there must be a reason for that, and see: it won’t open because of all the weeds around – not to talk about the lock.

    But the lock is rotten and the weeds are willing to give way. So: what’s holding you back?

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  • Art is the art of defining art

    Detlef 6:31 am on May 10, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Hendrix, Pictures

    I like those colours. Life and time are the greatest artists.

    Colours
    By Detlef.

    Or is this not art, but: what? I don’t care. I like this.

    Just click over to Jeb, where there is a discussion about art going on.

    I was pondering whether boxing might be an art form. Hmm. Only Muhammad Ali. Boxing and promoting it.

    Or destroying your guitar on stage, just like Jimmy Hendrix did?

    Or pissing into the audience, like some of those theater avant gardists in the sixties? I think it depends on the audience.

    (Sorry Jimmy up there for mentioning you in this context. You are way out of league. You waiting at the bus stop was art. I hope there are electric guitars in heaven.)

    This is a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon blog post.

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  • Emerging in the Eye of the Beholder

    Detlef 9:21 am on February 4, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Beach, , Pictures

    What’s this?
    Wood of shadows
    By Detlef.
    It might be firs in the snow, like Lyvemaskine supposes, it might be MacBeth’s Birnam Wood removing to Dunsinane – but those are shadows in the sand on the beach in Northern Jutland, Denmark.

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  • Der kleine Fisch ist sehr hungrig

    Detlef 5:06 am on December 9, 2008 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Apfel, Fisch, Kekse, Mücke, Pictures

    The little fish is very hungry
    von Detlef
    Maaahlzeit allerseits! Bisher gab es bloß einen Apfel, 2 englische Mücken, und englische Kekse.

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  • Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen

    Detlef 1:31 am on November 22, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Eichendorff, Gedichte, , Pictures,

    Wie man in den Wald hineinruft, so schallt es zurück.

    Wie man die Dinge betrachtet, so präsentieren sie sich.

    Der Schlüssel liegt nicht immer, aber oft, in der Art, wie wir der Welt gegenübertreten.

    (A song or a video.)

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  • Detlef 3:23 am on November 21, 2008 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Jütland, MacBeth, Meer, Nordsee, Pictures, ,

    An der Nordsee und besonders unter dem Himmel Nordjütlands merkt man, wie klein die eigene Exisitenz, das eigene Ich sich ausnimmt gegenüber der Natur – oder der Schöpfung.

    Trägt uns das Meer – oder verschlingt es uns?

    (A song or a video.)

    Heines Gedichte aus dem Nordsee-Zyklus passen gut in diese Landschaft, aber jetzt musste ich am Strand immer an Shakespeare und MacBeth denken:

    Life is a tale told by an idiot.
    Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

    Eben, weil ich mir so klein vorkam mit meinem Leben dort.

    Die Bilder im Film sind von Sabine.

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  • Die Krone der Schöpfung

    Detlef 1:24 pm on November 13, 2008 | 3 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Mensch, , Pictures, Schöpfung, Seminar, , uni hamburg

    Haben die Menschen das Recht, die Erde zu besitzen und zu beherrschen?

    Philosophisches Seminar der Uni Hamburg, Anfang der 80ger.

    Der Dozent trägt vor:

    “Die Menschen sind die bislang am weitesten entwickelte Lebensform auf der Erde.”

    Ein Student fragt:

    “Wer sagt das? Aus wessen Perspektive ist das so – außer der Perspektive der Menschen? Eine Ameise oder ein Schimpanse würde das sicher anders sehen.”

    Crown of Creation

    © 2008 Detlef Cordes

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  • Love on the Beach

    Detlef 11:33 am on November 13, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Liebe, Pictures,

    Die Liebe ist langmütig:

    Love on the Beach

    © 2008 Detlef Cordes

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