After the flood: willow strong as always

 

standing

  

"Staand" Italiaanse weg 2010/2013 

after the storm

 "Na de storm" Italiaanse weg January 2014

Exhibition in April & May 2014

Transformatie: Expositie in april en mei 2014

Als het spoor en het station worden opgebroken word je een reiziger in het veranderende landschap van je eigen stad. Reizen is als het leven zelf; nieuwe horizonnen ontdekken en voortdurend afscheid nemen. Herinneringen kun je niet vasthouden, maar de camera vangt soms een glimp van het wezenlijke op.

Bomen blijven altijd op hun plek en ze kunnen zelfs staande sterven, maar soms waaien ze om of worden omgezaagd. Dan word je nieuwsgierig naar hun innerlijke wereld en geven ze misschien wat van hun geheimen prijs.

De expositie is te bezichtigen tijdens kantooruren in april en mei 2014 
bij Hekkelman advocaten & notarissen
Sickeszplein 1  6821 HV Arnhem 
Opening: zondag 13 april om 16:00 uur

Kijk ook op mijn andere blog over Arnhem Centraal

Love hurts

How many people walked through this lane and carved 

their love and pain in the wood?

After some time even the trees won't remember...

 

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reach out

in the forest of my youth

short days (4)

after a day of playing at the Tulpstraat at 17.49 PM

rainy day feelings

the grief of the forest (14)

the grief of the forest (13)

the grief of the forest (12)

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the grief of the forest (11)

the grief of the forest (10)

the grief of the forest (9) about the life elixir of the birch

An old Finnish song describes how the birch complain and weep because the children steal their life elixir every spring. In the Scandinavian countries the birch was a sacred and magic tree, the tree of light and new life, who's spirit was considered to be a mature woman who appeared now and then from the roots.
For the Teutons it was the tree of wisdom, they thought that the leaves, twigs and the sap had magical and healing qualities.

The word birch means: white, bright, to shine. It is also called 'the Lady of the Forest' or 'the white Lady with the green veil'

The birch is a pioneer plant and can grow almost anywhere, but prefers swampy areas. In spring when the leaves come out the sapstream is most powerful, therefore if you cut them at this time of year it causes this eruption. Now you can get a glimpse of the process within the tree which is normally not visible. Maybe it is an attempt of the birch to reveal a little bit of her secret and to show her inner brightness just before it is gone.

In these woods where I come regularly a very large amount of trees were felled, not only the birch, but also the oak, the beech and the larch. 
Now, after a period of rain the magical white fluid has disappeared or has turned into orange. Walking through these empty spaces I wonder if the birds don't miss the trees in which they used to breed, but they sing just like any other spring. 

  

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