FRAGMENTS

REALITY/ BANALITY



DAY IN AND DAY OUT,
NO THOUGHTS
ARE FIZZLED

THE FRAGMENTS

DULL AND TIRED

NOTHING WILL DISTURB
THE BANALITY
MAYBE

 RANDOM NEWS  WILL ARRIVE:
A FAMILIAR FACE
 PASSED AWAY SOMEWHERE

 YOUR BAG FILLED WITH

 UNNECESSARY OBJECTS
LATEST ADDITION;  SOLEMN FACE

A CONCOCTION
INGRIDIENTS WITH
NO SUBSTANCE

A QUESTION COMES TO MIND
 WHEN
AND WHERE

 YOUR FACE
ATTACHED  TO A BAG
OTHER THEN YOURS.

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" DRINK UP , PUNK."

I THREW MY EMPTY BEER CAN ACROSS THE ROOM.

"TELL ME SOME MORE ABOUT YOUR MOTHER , JIMMY BOY. WHAT WHAT DID SHE SAID ABOUT THE MAN WHO DRUNK HER PISS IN HE BATHTUB?"

"SHE SAID,  ' THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE.'"

"JIM."

"Uh"

"DRINK UP. BE A MAN!" *

*HAM ON RYE: CHARLES BUKOWSKI

NYC

"THE DENSE CROWD SAILED IN DARKNESS, IN LOUD CONFUSION, WITH THE SHUFFLE OF  A THOUSAND FEET,  IN THE CHATTER OF  A THOUSAND MOUTHS-

A DISORDERLY,  ENTAGLED MIGRATION PROCEEDING ALONG THE ARTERIES OF THE AUTUMNAL CITY."*

*The Street Of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

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ACCIDENTAL REFLECTIONS

"YOU HAVE BEEN THE EMBODIMENT OF EVERY GRACEFUL

FANCY THAT MY MIND HAS EVER BECOME ACQUAINTED 

WITH"

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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CHILD

LIMA, PERU

' I wonder through each dirty street

near where dirty Thames does flow

and on each human face I meet

Marks of weaknes, marks of woe'

W.Blake

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FREEDOM TOWER

LOWER MANHATTAN,  NEW YORK CITY

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Photographs has been taken during the short evening cruise on the Hudson River.
September 29, 2012

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CURTAIN

"Solve unto me the enigma that I then beheld, interpret for me the vision of the loneliest one."
Zarathustra

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CORNER

"What makes your house a home is the artificial order you establish."

Gianni Vattimo

After the death of God

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TENT OF TOMORROW -NEW YORK- 1964- 2012

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Remains of " Tent of Tomorrow " 1964 New York  World fair unanimously sits in the midst of Corona  Meadows  Park. Riders of the number 7 Subway can have panoramic view of the park as well as

a distant view  to Towers of New York State pavilion, along with few forgotten artifacts, Apollo and Mercury spacecrafts and the Port Authority Heliport building. If you driving along Grand Central Parkway, one can have a closer look to towers and Tent of Tomorrow. After years of distant watching

recently I found myself driving along the service road lead into the entrance of parking lot of Queens Public Theater.  The building also was build as part of NYS pavilion, after forgotten quite some time recently went through major renovation and open to Public. There, standing in front of pile of of concrete and steel ruins I impressed with the shear size and volume of these structures.Their aged materiality was increasing  the sense of drama. Rusted steel beams, layers of striped cables all floating in the air, perhaps trying to tell a story, a story about past yet their voice lost in the vastness of history.

Central torsion ring, reminiscence of an alien ship comes out of 60's cartoon magazines hold by series 

of double layered steel cables. Original roof contained 1, 500 translucent panels was hung between 

the cables. The size of the roof has been said was bigger than the football field, largest suspended roof at the time of the Fair. Today these structures offers ghastly, more so a pessimistic look which is still questions the original intent of it's main advocator.

" The basic purpose of the Fair is Peace through Understanding, that is education of the peoples of the world as to the interdependence of nations to insure lasting peace.."*

*Robert Moses

DOLMABAHCE SARAYI

CEILING SHOTS

One may ask-
 "What part of the palace is this?'
-it is the most utillitarian part
I would have replied-
you give me a confused look.
"It's the part that you get yourself
relieved from the all biological pressures."
I may add.

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DETAIL

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Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York, 142 -acre commuter suburb.  Designed by Frederick   Olmsted Jr.  (July 24, 1870- December 25, 1957 ) After a more than 100 years from its inception
 surviving,  rather detoriated condition elegant wrought iron detailing offer a glimpse to heyday of modern suburbian arcadia.

THE LIMITED

  ' Hegel's notionof dynamic conceptualization (Bewegung des Begriffs ) presupposes that  truth cannot

    be expressed directly and immediately but must aim  instead  at identifying  the particular, the limited,

    the dead  and the false.'

    THEODOR ADORNO

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STATION

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, SEGOVIA, SPAIN

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ROOM WITH THE VIEW

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fuzzy things

 
..
some
fuzzy
dreams...

GRAN ELEFANDRET, MIGUEL BARCELO, 2008

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DOWN "n " UPº2

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Sunday 10:43 A.M.

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January 28,
 Early morning hours, sun angle in the sky rather low, the room filled with light  I pulled down the  shades and crawl back into bed pull over the bedcover all the way up; no, no use, shades are too porous sunlight is everywhere.. Nothing can be done ..
I am fully awake..