DOWN n UP

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DOWN n UP

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RELEVANCE

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Summer

At evening the complaint of the cuckoo
Grows still in the wood.
The grain bends its head deeper,
The red poppy.

Darkening thunder drives
Over the hill.
The old song of the Cricket
Dies in the field.

The leaves of the chestnut tree
Stir no more.
Your clothes rustle
On the winding stair.

The candle gleams silently
In the dark room;
A silver hand
Puts the light out;

Windless, starless night.

Poem by Georg Trakl

Translated by
James Wright and Robert Bly

CURTAIN

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

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Self Portrait

'The most eloquent testimony....may come from

those most reluctant to give.'(Geoff Dyer)

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where do you see yourself ten years from now?

A RECTANGULAR SHODOW LESS THAN A FOOT WIDE CROSSSED THE WHITE DUST OF THE ROAD . It lay at a slight angle from the perpendicular without quite reaching the opposite side: its rounded -almost flat-extremity did not protrude beyond the middle of the road , of which the left side remained unshaded. Between this extremity and the close -cropped weeds bordering the road had been crushed the corpse of a little frog, its legs open, its arms crossed, forming slightly darker gray spot  on the dust of the road. The creature's body had lost all thickness, as if nothing but skin were left-hard dessicated, and henceforth invulnerable-clinging to the ground as closly as the shadow of animal about to leap, limbs extended-but somehow immobillized in air. To the right the real shodaw, which was much darker, gradually became paler, disappearing altogether after a few seconds.

Mathias lifted his head toward the sky. *

**the Voyeur/Alain Robbe-Grillet

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