Bar-art

Leuven, Belgium, December 2007

 

 

Pôr do sol

December 2007, Balen Keiheuvel, Belgium

If there is one thing I missed in Portugal, or that I didn´t see enough, then it's sunsets...

No place like the wet air of belgium to color the sky in the most beautiful shades of red.

I adore the sky in the blue I only encountered in Portugal, a blue sky any way you looked, so deep, so calm.

But this radiant red, this fire made of light and water, it doesn't make up, but it compensates a little the rain...

 

Bright things lie ahead

December 2007, Aarschot, Belgium

Have this friend that told me yesterday. "Djiezes man man man, what´s your problem ? You are alive, you are in good health, you are in no immediate money problems... What are you whining about ? Life is only more interesting for all the other problems you have. So shut up, get out of that chair and go enjoy these experiences, though they be-eth hard. They will not come back, and you will feel regret of not having savoured them. Your life is not the sum of the nice things minus the sad things, but it´s the total of experiences you went through and came out of with a smile!"

Passo a passo

Heverlee, Belgium, December 2007

I will get there,
there are a lot of steps to take, and I don't know how many curves to follow.
But I will get there.

Shake the light

Wilrijk, Belgium November 2007

The theme goes on

and it will echo forever, the small dimples we make in the water that is life.
The theme of life is written for us, we cannot change it. The choice we have is wether we sing along in harmony or break it...
But don't forget, a perfect disharmony can put a beautiful accent.
Sing your tune, make it catchy, make it ordinary, make it an epos or make it a novel, but whatever you do, never never make it boring.

Mirror mirror on the Wall

Brussels, October 2007
The way you look is one of the communication media towards other
people that gets the most attention, often more then what you say...
Yet it is also the only medium you don't have control over ; not even
in the mirror will you ever understand how you look.

The best mirror you will ever have, is the way people look at you.

You don't shine if you don't glow

Leuven, October 2007

Impressions around Warsaw II

September 2007, Warsaw, Poland

Impressions around Warsaw

September 2007, Warsaw, Poland

Mama, why ?

Mama,
why is the sky blue ?
why do clouds change shape ?
If I was a statue, would I be cold ?
And if I had a blanket, would I still feel cold ?
And with a very very warm blanket ?
Is there a number bigger then infinite ?
why does the washing machine turn always first left and then right ?
Why don't you understand when I say a little much ?
Why are we here ?
Is it still far ?
Can I have a cookie ?
Why do we call a tree a tree ?
If I swallow a chewing gum, what will happen ?
Why are babies born with their head first ?

Thank you mama, for answering all my questions...

August 2007, Cap du Blanc Nez, Normandy, France

Dusk or Dawn

July 2007, Pragal, Almada, Portugal

Red and green, so many forms

October 2007, JY's room, Lerkeveld, Heverlee, Belgium

Can you walk the walk ?

Sometimes, you have the freedom to be who you are, and everything is
going great, and you can realize yourself and be happy about it.
Sometimes, you dont have that freedom, and you have to push yourself
through a hole you don't really fit, so that you can realize yourself
and be happy about it.
This is the game life is, and I wish the rules would be honest and
fair, but they aren't. Yet the more you complain about the crappy
rules, the less you can play.
Luckily, life is a game that requires tactics, but it's also a game of
chance ; ) There is no square that is really a lost square, anything
can happen.
I have fretted the rules for a long time. Now I have to learn how to
play by them...
September 2007, Rouen, France

Chit Chat

I like to talk to my friends, about a lot of stuff.
but I also like the moments, where we are together, and don't need to
talk... when all is just well as it is...
August 2007, Mont St Michel, France

Scared in the dark ?

August 2007, Mont St Michel, France

I like the way you move !

August 2007, Monastery of Mont St Michel, France

The target is clear

It's always easier to know what direction to go, if you know where you
have to end... a flag, a house, a light in the distance, they help you
find your way. They do not make it easier to walk, and often make you
even feel the fact that you are still far away and have to walk a lot
to get there. But they do make it easier to know where to go... but to
be honest, once I know where I have to end up, I often don't care
about the walk anymore, when actually, the walk is the only
interesting part, the goal is a lot less interesting...
Once you see the goal, you loose the possibility in your mind to find
another goal... You feel momentarily saved, but are actually locked...

If I knew the goal of my life, I would know how to live it. But it
certainly would not be as enjoyable... I would be locked in my belief
that there is only one good ending to this fantastic story...
I believe honestly that all the endings are beautiful, not what
happens matters, not how long it takes, but how you take it, and how
you look at yourself and others while you are going to your end...

August 2007, golf terrain in Etretat, France

And the mountains are made of black and white chocolate

August 2007, chalk rocks at Etretat, France

Be like water, my friend

August 2007, beach of Pic du Blanc Nez, Normandy, France

Impressions around IST

Alameda, July 2007

Decisions, decisions

Avenida Viriato, Tortosendo, July 2007
A while ago I said something about red and green, two important colors
in our life, and how knowing when to go and when to pause is one of
the biggest tricks to life.
What to do when the colors are not green and red but orange and red ?
from all the sides there is resistance, there is not a good moment or
a bad one... Actually, it simplifies the matter... It is no longer a
matter of waiting for a good moment or not, recognizing the good
moment and going for it precisely during that good moment... It´s only
a matter of deciding wether or not you want to cross the street,
wether you want to arrive at the other side or not... If there is no
promise that the light will turn green, then there is not difference
between crossing now or later. If you are sure that you want to cross,
cross now...
go go go !
and whatever you do, if you start crossing, go all the way, because I
can assure you, if you are in the middle of the street, and turn back,
you will see the same red and orange light telling you not to go
back...

I have some crossing to do myself, but first some deciding...

Até deu faísca!

Lisboa, linda Lisboa !
I am back for two weeks, working dusk to dawn, but it's great to be here!
Portugal is really a beautiful country, my hearts beats faster just being here. Though I know that it's only for a short time that I will be here, and that it will be long before I will pass through here again, I try not to think about it. I am enjoying every moment of it, and see things as I never saw before.The lamp post in Alameda, near Fonte Luminosa... beautiful geometry, the lamppost adds to the image of the square, even when the sun makes it superfluous.
Windpower is booming business in Portugal, and it fits also well with the culture, I think. And I say this with the utmost respect for the culture that I have learned to love so much: Portuguese are windy people, they go were the wind takes them and make the best of it, not as opportunists, but as realists. There is no changing the wind, just change your goals and decide to go where the wind wants you to be... It makes them extremely inventive, because they have to find solutions for problems nobody ever solved before... This windfarm is next to A8, going north of lisbon, about 20 km south of Óbidos, a medieval town in the contest for next world wonder..
When driving through Lisbon, you drive by history all the time... some don't notice it anymore, but this city has a hard job expanding while keeping it's patrimonium intact.
July 2007