the seven paths to seeing

 

 

 

 

 

1. ignore everyone

 

2. the world is not as it seems

 

3. take time to observe

 

4. the light

5. feel it

6. be in awe

7. stop thinking

 

 

 

 

 

ancient inscriptions

graffiti

(ɡræˈfiːtiː)

pl n, sing -to (-təʊ)

1. (sometimes with singular verb) drawings, messages, etc, often obscene, scribbled on the walls of public lavatories, advertising posters, etc

2. (Archaeology) archaeol inscriptions or drawings scratched or carved onto a surface, esp rock or pottery

vb, past part graffitiing or graffiting

3. (intr; often passive) to be inscribed or defaced with graffiti: the wall was graffitied with offensive material.

4. to inscribe or draw graffiti on (a wall, etc)

[C19: graffito from Italian: a little scratch, from graffio, from Latin graphium stylus, from Greek grapheion; see graft¹]

grafˈfitist n

 

Collins English Dictionary

 

 

So often graffiti photography amounts to little more than reproducing someone else's art - the colourful images that decorate the surface of our city life. However, graffiti tells a more ancient story. Steeped in obscenity and thumbing a nose to authority it scratches a deeper itch.

 

kindness died

 

beauty and the beast

 

butchery

really?

love hides

risen

what lies beyond

death amongst the weed

 

tagged

conflict

second conflict

one way

the temple of graffiti

and in the end

 

hard core

Dear Sheddists,

a short warning in advance...

THIS POSTING FEATURES HARD CORE SCANDINAVIAN CHAIR PORN!!!!

The Danish Design Center is to be found just beyond the royal palaces on the east side of Copenhagen harbour.  It occupies the site of the old Fredericks Hospital and features an amazing selection of twentieth-century Danish art and craft.

Pride of place goes to the Danish Chair Exhibition. It's housed in one of the four wings of the old hospital behind thick PVC door-strip curtains - the kind you might find at the entrance to an industrial refrigeration unit.

We push them apart and enter a long tunnel clad with a jet black ceiling.  Our breath is fair taken away. Ranged along each side of the tunnel behind neat, geometric windows are a series of stunning Danish Modern chairs. They include some designed by Hans J. Wegner and if you've read earlier posts in this series you'll know already we're staying in the Wegner Room at the Hotel Alexandra.

There are just so many beautiful shapes and forms to take in as we walk the length of the tunnel before diving back into the main part of the Center.  Perhaps as you look at the photos below you can imagine walking with us.

Best regards,

electrofried(mr)

The galleries begin

The Danish Chair Exhibition

Fade out