Susann Kräftner
author archivesA weather-beaten board appears like the sketch of a lung
If we look around and discern the many shapes that surround us, once alerted, we see how blurry the space...
Where Orient meets Occident …
Visiting the Orient makes obvious how much the forms of this culture have influenced us. Unfortunately we forgot about this...
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid – where they shot the movie
I was in St. George, Utah, in the beginning of May, an area tainted in red and whitish from sand...
Traces of a brush or cells crossing a borderline?
Under the conditions of an inflammation vessel walls change their consistency. They start leaking, their permeability changes. The cells they...
Asphalt flower or white blood cell?
When an inflammation is flaring up in our body the tissue, the vessels and the cells start changing shape. Changing...
Do you recognise what you see?
It is amazing how few cues we need to compile an image that makes sense to us. This actually does...
Wasp conquers hall stand for its nest
It’s really amazing how we living creatures coexist. Which are the criteria that determine who scares whom or who is...
Sleuthing camels in Dubai’s desert
The caravans who have been populating the main commercial routes from China to Europe do not exist anymore. Instead oil...
Peephole into the unknown
On my visit to Cannes, no I wasn’t at the Festival de Film, wrong time, unfortunately. It was a small...
The tree of life, Bahrain
The traces of the tree go back in time as long as almost 500 years. This amazingly robust creature is...