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* Late 16th cent. (denoting gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin 'recollectio' (n-), from the verb 'recolligere', which means to ‘gather again’.
Roma, Italia
EXPLORE-D (8 December 2011)
2020 Recollections
Lego Solo Exhibition-Lego Let's Go
Put my Mocs (Leopard Cat, Urban Panda) into LEGO House again.
2020年，完成了樂高個展 - Lego Let's Go
再次將作品(石虎.城市熊貓)放進LEGO House
電視錄影(創藝多腦河).廣播錄音(下午楓一點)
參加KAVALAN 噶瑪蘭酒瓶裝置藝術計劃
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Washington Square Park for decades has been an iconic part of New York City but it has a much deeper history. At the time when the Dutch first settled here in the early seventeenth century this was a Native American settlement called Sapohanikan. one of an estimated eighty Native American settlements of the Lenape people that existed in the areas that comprise the modern boundaries of New York City.
The native people of the settlement were violently displaced under Dutch Governor Wouter van Twiller in the 1630s, who converted the area into a tobacco plantation for the Dutch West India Company worked by tenant farmers. It remained farmland through over a century of British rule until the early years of the Untied States when in 1797 the New York City Council brought the area and use it as the new Potters Field. In the beginning of the 19th century the city was plagued with large disease outbreaks including smallpox, yellow fever, TB etc. So this area became the mass grave area for these outbreaks until 1825 and there are the estimated remains of over 20,000 human remains that are still buried here. The area was then converted into a militray parade ground and as the city kept expanding northward this area became a very desirable area for higher income individuals even to this day. In 1871 the newly formed New York City Department of Parks converted the area into parkland. 1889 A wooden and plaster version of the current arch was erected and became so popular that just a few years later in 1892 a marble version drawing heavy inspiration from Arc de Triomphe in Paris. In 1918 two large statues of George Washington were added to the monument. During the 1930's there was plans to radically change the park which caused bitter legal fights which last for decades. The park had one last major renovation when the roadways that ran through the park were removed. After WWII the park became a gathering spot for folk singers. Then in the 1950's beatniks started using the park as a gathering place and then in the 1960's hippies began replacing the beatniks. This is where we go from the Wikipedia history to my personal recollection of the park's history. When I was a young boy my mother would tell us to stay on the block when we went out to play which we totally ignored and wander sometimes miles from the house. By the time we became young teenagers my parents and my friend's parents would tell us to "Stay within the neighborhood." which we of course totally ignored and we would take the subway to the far corners of the city including from Coney Island to buses to Rye beach in Westchester County. In the summer of 1968 when I was 13 my friends and I started hanging out at Washington Square on a regular basis. By then the park was a major gathering place for hippies in the city and was a beehive of activity from street musicians, poets, street stand up comics, magicians, political activists giving speeches and a easy accessible place to buy drugs. You would go into the park where many brazen aggressive low life dealers would sell drugs. Through the eighties the police would periodically sweep the area rounding up petty drug dealers in Washington Square Park and also in nearby Union Square and Madison Parks and many politicians just threw up their hands in despair. Then in the late eighties and in the nineties gentrification hit the area with a vengeance and many buildings were converted or torn down to make room for luxury condominiums and rentals and just like that all of a sudden the police and prosecutors found the political will to clear out the petty drug dealers and clean up the area. This was further enhanced when a former federal prosecutor by the name of Rudy Giuliani implemented his "Broken Windows" idea of policing. Today the park is mostly cleared of criminal elements and at least during daytime hours though early evenings. Also in the last few years as recreationally used marijuana is now legal and marijuana dispensers selling vastly more potent varieties has also taken a big dent into the drug trade. Even now with my old friends into their sixties and early seventies after all these years we still use this park as a starting meeting place for a day into evening downtown.
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It's unfortunate that flickr doesn't support much horizontality. Anyway, hello! I haven't seen you for a bit. How are you? I'm still in Canada… currently at the hotel, hours from witnessing our good friends wed, so not much time to catch up. Especially since I have a second interview coming up on Monday. Please cross your fingers for me!
[...] It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? [...]
-- Quote by Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
Como, Italy (January, 2008)
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I needed to remind myself that better days are coming.
Blick vom Theater zum Tetrapylon und auf die arabische Zitadelle auf dem Hügel
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"Wenn es eines Beleges für Rang und Wirkungsmacht der Bilder bedarf, dann ist es das Scheitern vieler Versuche, mit ihrer Zerstörung auch die Ideen zu zerschlagen, deren Symbole sie sind.
Mit der zweiten Zerstörung Palmyras werden die IS-Terroristen die Erinnerung an seine antike Kultur nicht tilgen können. Aber sie können sich ihrer Identität als Verächter der menschlichen Zivilisation versichern. So wie sie dies beinahe täglich mit ihren Massakern an Frauen und Kindern beweisen. Es sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille."
(Auszug aus DIE WELT)
Recollection from a previous holiday. Sadly this Bruno is no longer with us. A loyal and handsome dog (with a mind of his own at times..!) and a very good friend.
Another view of Sandstone falls on the Black River. It being the only fall I could get to on this trip I spent a lot of time with it even though it's not that spectacular. This shot is handheld.
RECOLLECTION:
"...И голос сиплый мой сплетаем с ветром
Терзаючи с надрывом струны сфер возносит требу:
"- Ты нас на свет привёл по облику и образу своя
И простирается над мною длань твоя,
И отворяя в этот мир глаза..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P8bwoCyRzc
Mimozami jesień się zaczyna,
Złotawa, krucha i miła.
To ty, to ty jesteś ta dziewczyna,
Która do mnie na ulicę wychodziła.
Od twoich listów pachniało w sieni,
Gdym wracał zdyszany ze szkoły,
A po ulicach w lekkiej jesieni
Fruwały za mną jasne anioły.
Mimozami zwiędłość przypomina
Nieśmiertelnik żółty - październik.
To ty, to ty, moja jedyna,
Przychodziłaś wieczorem do cukierni.
Z przemodlenia, z przeomdlenia senny,
W parku płakałem szeptanymi słowy.
Młodzik z chmurek prześwitywał jesienny,
Od mimozy złotej - majowy.
Ach, czułymi, przemiłymi snami
Zasypiałem z nim gasnącym o poranku,
W snach dawnymi bawiąc się wiosnami,
Jak tą złota, jak tą wonną wiązanką.
Julian Tuwim
With the lilacs the autumn comes, pearly,
and golden, and brittle, and sweet.
It is you, it is you, are that girlie,
who would often run to meet me in the street.
Your letters’ scent through the hall came floating,
when I, breathless, from schoolroom would come,
and down the streets in that gentle autumn
bright angels would follow me home.
Now the wilting mimosas foretell,
yellow immortelles’ month– October.
- You, you, are that one darling girl,
to the milk-bar, at dusk, would come over.
I, by swooning and praying made sleepy,
in the park wept whispered words in a daze.
Autumn moon shone, among the clouds slipping,
but with the golden mimosas –seemed May’s.
Ah, with dreams so pleasant and tender,
When he faded, I at dawn would lie dozing,
Dreaming springtimes now many years ended,
springs like this golden, this sweet-scented posy.
translated by Marcel Weyland
Bielik zwyczajny
(Haliaeetus albicilla)
There were a pair of them in the area I stayed. I kept seeing them soaring high over the sea. Like all the birds in the Archipelago they are very wary of people. I took several hundred pictures of them but all from a long distance which resulted in only few keepers.