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nighttime (terror)

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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dance dance dance

““Dance,” said the Sheep Man. “Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don’teventhinkwhy…”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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Lost in Sablon.

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car(e)free

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle

And, when the roads of Brussel were closed to cars this Sunday, that is exactly what the population did.

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faces at stripfeest

“People are strange when you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted”

– The Doors

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endurance

“Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible”

– Albert Camus

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This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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Cinque sculture, Cinque continenti

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Do our political leaders share the vision of a better world captured by Maurizio Toffoletti?

Reproduced below are the words typed on a single sheet of paper at the centre of this simple and provocative display challenging those who approach the EU Parliament in the heart of Brussel.

Cinque sculture, Cinque continenti uniti da una tensione e all’armonia e alla solidità, interconnessi in un mirabile gioco di equilibri e di luce

Cosi, la ricerca dello scultore Maurizio Toffoletti esprime il suo ideale di pace, una sintesi virtuosa di realtà e vocazione.

Un lavoro che iscrive nella materia dura e nobile del marmo i valori della comune e pacfica convivenza.

E’ il modo in cui il contenuto forte ma sobrio dell’artista leccese comunica l’afflato universale verso un mondo migliore.

Verso un nuovo umanesimo, che nella sua scultura dalle forme scultoree aerodinamiche ed evocative, incarna la rappresentazione dall’alto del progetto di città universale.

Un luogo che, sulle orme raffinate del pensiero di Italo Calvino delle “Città Invisibili”, riceve la sua forma “dal deserto dello spirito cui si oppose”.

Five sculptures, Five continents tied by a tension to harmony and stability, interconnected in an enchanting game of balance and light.

Thus, the research of the sculpture, Maurizio Toffoletti, expresses his ideal of peace, a virtuous synthesis of reality and vocation.

It is a masterpiece that seals in the hard and noble material of marble the values of common and peaceful coexistence.

In this way the powerful but austere contribution of the Leccese artist conveys to the viewers the universal inspiration towards a better world.

It is a genuine quest towards a new humanism, that strives to give shape to the aerial representation of the Universal City through aerodynamic and evocative sculptural lines.

It is an ideal site which gradually takes shape and form “from the desert of the spirit that it opposes” as remarked by the refined writer Italo Calvino in the “Invisible Cities”.

Cinq scupltures, Cinq continents unis par une tension à l’harmonie et à la solidité, qui sont interconnectés dans un magnifique jeu d’équilibre et de lumiere.

Ainsi, la recherche du scuplteur Maurizio Toffoletti exprime son idéal de paix, une synthèse vertueuse de réalité et vocation.

Un travail qui inscrit dans le matériau dur et noble du marbre les valeurs de la coexistence commune et pacifique.

C’est ainsi que le contenu simple mais puissant de l’artiste originaire de Lecce traduit l’inspiration universelle vers un monde meilleur.

Vers un nouvel humanisme, qui incarne, dans ses scupltures aérodynamiques et évocatrices, la représentation en perspective du project de Ville Universelle.

Un lieu qui, sur les traces de la penseé raffinée de “Villes Invisibles” d’Italo Calvino, doit sa forme au “désert de l’esprit auquel il s’oppose”.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure!

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

This is my contribution to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.

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A rainy day in July.

Fietsen. Fountains. Frites.

The lost wander.

And wonder.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic

“Share my body and my mind with you
That’s all over now…”

Cruel World, Lana Del Rey

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This is my response to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.