Art

Just 50 meters from my front door on Zielona. And a few minutes ago. Art. How easy it can be...

And.. is this unstable urbanism.... or isn't it?

GaleriaFF, Zawieszenie / Suspension

Yesterday afternoon I visited Galeria FF which is a gallery focused on photography only. Mainly Polish.

So surfing around in their website gives a good view about Polish photography of a certain kind.

I saw the work of:



which I actually liked, especially this one:



It's linked with abstract paintings, drawings and ready mades for example from Picasso's cubist period and others.

Summer in Lodz, 20 º Celsius!

Again on Piotrkowska... close to my front door.
Note: Candid camera.

Lodz awakes...

Yes, Lodz awakes, just in a few days... probably better to say: in a few hours... Big change. Spring!

This was slightly a week ago...

and now... different attitude..

Young and old is starting to parade...

the light changed...

there is a new energy...

and a different atmosphere...

on Piotrkowska, Wednesday 24 March 2010. 

Lodz awoken!

One week ago...

Just exactly one week ago...

and now... last Sunday...

The presence of Jewish history

Yesterday late in the afternoon I went out for some fresh air. Not willing to spoil the whole day behind my screen... the atmosphere is still amazing with the snow in the city of Lodz.

I didn't not have a plan... as usual, just trusting on a kind of inner compass... And I was lucky!

First I bumped on a film set on the street where they where filming.... yes, ghetto history, people dressed up as in the forties, I saw stars of David on sleeves, Nazi uniforms, an old flee-market, all the stereotypes... The action was around a ghetto fence... which seems to me not very real also...

I didn't like it very much. Don't know why... But nevertheless the story have to be told over and over again. I am only afraid that it doesn't help very much. Friend of mine wrote: Read WG Sebald about Grunewald, the painter, and the city of Frankfurt around 1500...
If history learns something it is unfortunately that things are not changing.

This is one of the gards of the filmset. His little dog has something firmly tied around his mouth. I had the extremely unpleasant thought that this tiny little dog probably could be an anti Semitic one who starts barking if they shout: "Action!"

Black humour is a good weapon.

I went further on strolling around in wintry Lodz. Entering everywhere you are not supposed to enter...   Sneaking around. And - big surprise! - hidden in the second courtyard of an old and for a very long time neglected kamienica... the synagogue... Small. Beautiful. It just catched the last sunlight... I knew immediate what it was: Synagogue Reicherów, the only synagogue which survived the war because it was quite hidden and used as a store house for salt that days...

I went around, taking pictures, trying to capture my enchantment...  

And I wanna share it with you... so I give them all. 

Monday Monday...

Monday Monday....

Monday morning, view from my window...

Monday early evening...

late evening...

Monday mondaaaay....

Winter! Sunday-evening.

Snow is falling in nice big flakes. Very inviting to stay at home! Finally I went out late in the evening. On the streets there are some people but silence. Each sound is absorbed by the snow...

I walked around enchanted by this white magical world.

I decide to turn my back to the people on the street and the lonely taxi driver...

And to concentrate on the courtyards from the kamienica's  at Piotrkowsksa... which are... well look for yourself...

And on the street again...

At home... view from my window (also a courtyard)

Saturday evening, Sunday morning

This is the place where I live. On the third floor from the first kamienica at the corner from Zielona and Piotrkowska, right in the middle of the center from Lodz.

My view entering the street downstairs at night... 

Saturday evening... 

Snowing again!

I decide to make some night pictures around the crossing...

Under the arches from the opposite corner, late customers for the Papierosy...

Crossing the street

View from the third corner.

Two colourful passengers...

View at fourth corner

At home again. Enjoying the just renovated kitchen...

And in the morning.... yes, still snowing!

("More night pictures!" said Ron)

And by the way: Who said that Poland is grey!