A 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 of forms is. There is no clear distinction between the forms of...
Where Orient meets Occident …
Visiting the Orient makes obvious how much the forms of this culture have influenced us. Unfortunately we forgot about this and turned things around. Today we are the masters, our morals dictate...
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 stone mountains almost as high as the Grand Canyon, the Virgin river...
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 are build of give space to the immune cells to wander through...
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 the shape means that they change their function. You see a white...
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 not mean that we see what is out there in the world....
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 afraid of whom… How comes that the tiny one can scare the...
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 and gas plants dissect the beauty of the desert. Huge freeways connect...
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 triathlon event, but I took the chance to at least stroll along...
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 thriving under the most arid conditions in the desert of Bahrain. It...