I always wanted to do this to bronze statues, too.
To get me in the mood for my only trip while I’m in Europe (besides that god damned Barcelona trip; don’t get me started), I’ve watched The Lives of Others (that was killing two birds with one stone; we’re coming up on Good Friday here, and I had to know what the military junta was like in the seventies in Greece!) and I’ve been patronizing art book stores.
I found this guy, Josef Koudelka, and I really love his stuff. This isn’t the one I had in mind, but it’ll do, right? I think it’s beautiful.
The one that I really liked was called “The Wall.”
Also, Friedrich Seidenstrucker does this split of a long table filled with greatly dressed lunchers snacking and talking, then a photo of the table with no one sitting there anymore, with all their dishes, their cutlery, their napkins still lying out on the table. It’s beautiful, and so melancholy.
Can’t find that anywhere on the fucking internet, either. I hate computers.
Don’t get you started on Barcelona, eh?
Did you decide to go to Bulgaria instead of Berlin?
Both!