https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/C_5q52zNLcM/
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Life is so much in order or disorder. It seems to be impossible to simply start walking without direction and goal. We want to stick to our well known tracks with too less or too much wilderness in us. Arriving at an unknown place is acceptable as holiday destination but please not in daily life.
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Post 14.9.24
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This picture, that I found in an old family album, doesn' t offer any movement, not the slightest. It will be forgotten in 20, 50 years or much sooner. Only current observers can open the curtain with their imagination. What do we see through the window?
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Post 14.9.24
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In our night and day dreams we travel a lot to nice, to awful, boring or frightening places. We long for tenderness with people, that walk by without noticing us. Travelling to places that never come true: it might be warm or cold out there. Do we find people we love? How do the land-scapes look like? Do birds fly around? Do sunsets chase moons for fun?
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Post 14.9.24
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Many of us want to loose weight, some better gain weight. We all fear to become light as dust.
We can never loose gravity apart from swimming in an ocean or flying to a moon.
May be the greatest magicians in the univers can play with gravity as it were rabbits , the two women on the photograph are surely not two of them.
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Post 14.9.24
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If I could count the stream
of all my longings,
my permanent desires, cravings
and worries about this and that.
There is no calculator
starting from birth
or even before until now.
Doesn't matter what age,
what length of the stream.
In this Insta reel I pretent
to be the calculator.
Off course I am not.
I am the observer and Passer- by
on this long treadmill in the
Metro station Montparnasse.
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Post 14.9.24 (Reel Video)
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Turn off all lights. Let's say for 3 days. Staying in a dark place voluntarily. Giving room to the inner sights, memories, thoughts, imaginations. Time to dance with our life from the beginning until now.
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Post 14.9.24 (Reel Video)
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Give names from now on
each step, each breath.
Soon such given names
like John, Jack, Marlene or Emily
will run out.
Think up new names
like stars porridge, dog light,
butterfly boat, room whisper -
also letters, numbers,
character combinations.
No step, no breath
should be nameless anymore
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Post 15.9.24
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My favourite bird in mind
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Post 15.9.24
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Or ignore cloud and stone. Go to a bar, drink a beer as casual as a cloud. Order another beer or go home.
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Post 20.9.24
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My text is the variation of a classical theological/philosophical question from the 17th century: how many angels can take place on the tip of a needle? Dancing with an angel until the morning light, dancing to the great music of a godless DJ.
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Post 24.9.24
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Old family photos
Like an outdoor children's game -
look away: steps voices,
look again: everyone stands still
endlessly interwoven.
Children stretch out, rummage for
their names, the names of their children, want to swim,
starting a new life.
Are they about to come
to the front or back door?
Will they need parents, siblings ,
daycare, school places?
Now the birds are in the trees,
the skies above are clearly visible
like canopies, party tents, years
passing through.
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Post 24.9.24
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We are surrounded by a lot of
affirmations from friends, in calendars,
newspapers and online to improve our
daily performance at work and
privately and of course spiritually.
In the last years I made a few personal
aphorisms on these efforts.
This is my first post, others
will follow. Enjoy.
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Post 28.9.24
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This is the second of my affirmation posts. Enjoy
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​​Post 30.9.24
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To marry somebody is a good or bad decision. In the south of every marriage map things get out of control. Hands get feet, lips play with lips, promises become noodle soups, breathing is falling in love, falling apart for a moment before the long times begin.
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​​Post 6.10.24
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This is my third affirmation/ calendar saying post. Enjoy
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​​Post 10.10.24
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This picture is also from an old family photo album: cloudy white hair with no or much wind, that will make it stay or travel to places far away, to places in our imaginations, hopes, worries. It doesn't matter if the person on the head is still living or deceased long ago. Just turn the picture upsight down and the journey can begin.
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​​Post 10.10.24
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I always wanted to open an egg carton and climp from the valleys to the top. I would have to be smaller than an egg, much smaller to make it a real challenge.
What would I see apart from other waste in a paper container? How could I paint the peak red without getting really in trouble?
Maybe nobody would care about it.
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​​Post 11.10.24
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The voices of my parents
become quieter inside me.
The memories
become more indistinct
like the frequent copying
of old styled music cassettes.
Was it really the case
that my mother went into the forest
and came back with golden mushrooms?
She made a soup out of them.
And we all had golden eyelashes
for three days afterwards.
And my father:
Did he really held
an angel's feather in his hand,
tied it in his hair
as he rode with his horse
across the train station forecourt?
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​​Post 13.10.24
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This text was edited
from a much longer text
of mine with the title:
Variations on purgatory
A thousand years
sorting small coins
that older men collect
in preserving jars
to take them to the bank
at some point.
One, two, five cent pieces.
No food and drinks.
No toilet.
No sleep.
No breaks.
Enjoy..
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​​Post 24.10.24
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What the hell is: a star cake stove?
Better call it:
staring at the night stars cake stove.
Or may be the drawing of a blue elephants tail for the nephew in Luxembourg....
Whatever you can think of...
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​​Post 25.10.24
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My father was a well-known
photographer of shadows. Apart
from that he was a wanderer,
most of the time he was gone. I think
that he also begged along the way
or was locked up for a few days
as a tramp without money.
He never talked about it.
When he came to us, he was
very happy and so were we.
But over the course of
a few weeks he became restless.
One day he was gone again. He
also was a sailor. He came home,
you never knew when,
with a lot of gifts and
adventurous stories. He was
mostly gentle and patient.
He let me guess how big
the world was and which number
was the most mysterious.
When he slept, he snored like
a violin maker in the wrong
octave. At his
blue table, where he spent
most of the weekends,
he made astronomical calculations.
The table lit up brightly
before he started to a star excursion
to find our next vacation place. My
mother was always happy on
our family holidays, where we ate
in restaurants. She didn't have
to cook. She laughed much more
than at home.
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​​Post 4.11.24
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Last sunday flux walk
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​​Post 4.11.24 (Cover Foto von 10 Fotos)
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I got the idea of organizing a state funeral for a dictator a few years ago: to find a Museum of Modern Art that would provide a large space for such a funeral.
With all the props for such an event: state flags, flower arrangements, path carpets to walk on, soldiers marching according to fixed rules , lights,that would create a dignified atmosphere.
And, of course, in the center, the open coffin with the dictator - not a fictitious one, but a living dictator like Putin, Assad, Xi Jinping, Trump, you name it. Upon entering the room, visitors would be given clear instructions on how to approach the coffin and how long they are allowed to stay there, etc.
Such an action would naturally cause controversies in the run-up to the opening and generate many interventions, including from the “very top”.
Visitors to this fictitious funeral could, among other things, be made aware that living dictators will not live forever, that they are already dead in retrospect from the future, that their reign will always end.
Of course, I never had the money or the artistic fame to realize such a project. Maybe one day someone will do it
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​​Post 8.11.24
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Until then -
we write poems
about the beauty of old
torn down posters at bus stops,
railway stations.
And if we don't have anyone
who scratches our back,
we have to scratch it ourselves
with what we find in the house.
Or we leave the forest paths,
to rub like deers
against tree bark.
And if we want to know
what our backs looks like,
we need to find someone,
who takes a photo of it
(a friend, a lover,
a dermatologist,
the new tenderness robot)
Please try to compare
the inner landscape of your back
with the photos. Create a map of it
with hiking trails full of bumps.
No rubble, no caves.
How could we enter a cave
on our own back?
Anyone who could,
would be a successful magician,
travelling from performance
to performance with his Back Cave Act.
Instead we clumsily try
to teach the birds to sing backwards.
Surprisingly they teach us something,
that brings again hope into our lives:
that one day we will no longer
just see car tail lights,
but finally our own back light.
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​​Post 12.11.24
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How the dwarves
look at the night sky.
How the owls
look at the night sky.
How the garage doors
look at the night sky.
How the lovers
look at the night sky.
How the sunflowers
look at the night sky.
How the torturers
look at the night sky.
How the heartsick
look at the night sky.
How the express trains
look at the night sky.
How the praying
look at the night sky.
How the drunks
look at the night sky
How the four-digit numbers
look at the night sky.
How the dying
look at the night sky.
How the dustbins
look at the night sky.
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​​Post 13.11.24
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How the traffic lights and the blackbirds
look at the night sky.
How the sleepless and the pea cans
look at the night sky.
How the slaughter pigs and the footballers' legs
look at the night sky.
How the violins and the 10 per cent silence
look at the night sky.
How the consonants and the double consonants
look at the night sky.
How the margins and the coat racks
look at the night sky.
How the clean hands and the dirty hands
look at the night sky
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​​Post 14.11.24
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The “Book of Questions”
(Libro de preguntas) was published
posthumously in 1974 after Pablo Neruda's death.
It is divided into 74 sections
numbered in Roman numerals.
I like the book so much
that some years ago I started
to write new sections, also using the
Roman numerials.
This is my first post
with the numerial 75,
other releases will follow.
VXXV
How many milligrams
weighs a good idea,
does it weigh more than
a worrying thought?
Who commands the dreams
to run away so fast in the morning
that they can no longer be caught?
Do meadows go into hibernation
like bears, even if they don't
live in caves?
Who told the first joke
in the history of mankind?
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​Post 15.11.24
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This is the second post of my own questions of Pablo Nerudas "book of questions" from 1974.
VXXVI
Can you stumble over an hour
and sprain your foot in the process?
Do tanks sometimes have to go
to the car wash?
How many creatures can
impossibly lift a chicken feather?
If every wish but one
would come true,
what would be that one wish?
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​​Post 17.11.24
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​If I had a blue and a green nipple,
would you still love me?
If my ass was as rectangular as a shoebox,
would you still love me?
If I tortured people on behalf of a dictator,
would you still love me?
If I could no longer count to ten,
would you still love me?
If I was involved in an
attempted insurance fraud,
where I chopped off my left hand,
would you still love me?
If I turned myself into a frog
with a prince's head
through a botched magic spell,
would you still love me?
If I constructed combat vehicles used
to drown uprisings in other countries,
would you still love me?
If I no longer felt getting up
during the day and wouldn't even
brush my teeth anymore,
would you still love me?
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​​Post 18.11.24
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First flux winter walk
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​​Post 21.11.24 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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When mom and dad recount
how they got to know each other:
At the foot of a middle
finger we met by chance.
You saw me first,
greeted me friendly.
At the foot of a middle finger
I invited you for coffee.
How wonderful it tasted with you
and how beautiful your dress looked.
And then we climbed up
together the whole finger.
And when we arrived
we saw the fingers
of so many other hands.
What a great sight
on the top of a middle finger!
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​​Post 22.11.24
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"From google" is a series of
photo works that I did in 2021.
It deals with the interchangeability
and indiscriminate nature of images
on the internet.
In my first post I selected
photos in google with the keywords:
‘happy sky’ and 'car bomb'.
Only the skies in the photos
were used.
Other posts will follow.
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​​Post 23.11.24
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This is my third post
on Nerudas "book of questions":
Is there a bar in the nothingness
where you can get a beer?
How much would a day of life cost
if you could buy it?
Are there any wide-body airplanes
that are gay or lesbian?
If everyone could crawl
through the eye of a needle
would there still be poverty
and wealth?
What bedtime stories
do the stones tell their children
in the evening?
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​​Post 25.11.24
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DCyk4KeN7iT/
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"From google" is a series of
photo works from 2021.
It is addressing the interchangeability
and indiscriminate nature of images
on the internet.
In my second post I selected
photos in google with the keywords:
‘garden center’ and 'suicide bomber'.
Only plants in the photos
were used.
Other posts will follow.
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​​Post 25.11.24
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This is the poem I wrote:
Winter morning
Behind the window -
clouds are passing by.
When you make love
you don't notice it.
Afterwards the window is
fogged up with breath.
Imagine
clouds are passing by
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​​Post 29.11.24
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Food and winter flux
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​​Post 2.12.24 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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This is my second poem
with the title:
Variations on purgatory
For a thousand years
driving through a forest.
On the windscreen
autumn leaves that look
like yellowed butterflies
in bad poems. Engine
and scraping sounds.
In the background,
the illusion of houses
and other people.
In an endless loop
the journey repeats itself
in about ten seconds.
Every few years
the one-hour stop:
overwhelmed by laughter,
that finally ends when the journey
starts again.
No accelerating, no clutching,
no braking, no sleeping,
no eating, no drinking,
no thinking
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​​Post 3.12.24 (Reel Video)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DDSNQN3tFAx/
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This is my fourth post
on Nerudas "book of questions":
Who helps the word ‘deer’
across the busy street?
How painful is it for the letter n,
when it breaks its left leg?
Why do the stones
have to be so heavy?
How do the children
in bad and good novels
wake up in the morning?
Why can't we live in clouds,
at least in pink one's?
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​​Post 7.12.24
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It is always great when a brutal dictator must go, even if it is not clear, what will happen in the future. I have long waited for this event to come. The people of Syria have made beautiful décollages in the last weeks of the Assad regime. (In the strict definition in the art world, they are of course not décollages).
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​​Post 11.12.24 (Cover von 5 Fotos)
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In June this year I spent some time
in Sarajewo.
I made a tour on the siege of the city
between April 92 until Febr. 96.
The photo was made uphill from the
olympic bobsleigh track, where Serbian
soldiers shot at civilians in the city.
In the music composition these events
should be included.
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​​Post 15.12.24
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Dada advent questions
Is it an archangel or a glider?
Is it the Christ Child or an Ace of Clubs?
Is it a donkey or a rain cloud?
Is it a manger or a pipe wrench?
Is it Joseph or a deer antler?
Is it a sheep or a combine harvester?
Is it Mary or a tooth gap?
Is it a holy Epiphany or a 4-course meal?
Is it the star of Bethlehem or a rear-end collision on a motorway?
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​​Post 15.12.24
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Unthinkingly
cutting a good book into the salad.
Unthinkingly
kissing a goblin.
Unthinkingly
stiring an evening cloud into the coffee.
Unthinkingly
falling asleep
in the hair of a giant.
Unthinkingly
making a fire in the left nostril.
Unthinkingly
peeing on a rainbow.
Unthinkingly
taking a policeman's baton.
Unthinkingly
putting a soup spoon
in a stranger's mouth.
Unthinkingly
rubbing numbers in the ear.
Unthinkingly
confuse a day with a thousand years.
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​Post 20.12.24
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Flux excursions
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​​Post 21.12.24 (Cover von 6 Fotos)
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Flux fun while listening to "music for animals" from Nils Frahm at 3 in the morning
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​​Post 22.12.24 (Cover von 5 Fotos)
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Disorientate yourself
Giving other meanings to
the fingernail of a thumb,
the handle of a cup.
Our own name:
blowfly at the window,
the children over the years:
street lights passing by
and our good mother:
a wild animal running
into the forest.
Body movements in dance,
first kisses, shoesizes,
indian tea, outrages -
what all pretends who we are.
Deeply dimming up and down
the christmas songs,
the memories of our mustard glasses,
the sound of the eyelashes.
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​​Post 22.12.24
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Sunday morning breakfast - a photo story
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​​Post 24.12.24 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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This is my fifth post on Pablo
Neruda`s "Book of questions"
Where does our imagination wander
when we have to calculate something?
Why can't we preserve kisses
like jam and enjoy them later?
What clothes does the black choose,
when it goes out on a date?
Who helps the hammer
with 2 small nails across the road?
Why don't we pee with our
little right toe and how would
our toilets look then?
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​​Post 25.12.24
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Don't wish you were an angel,
they have to look for water all the time,
at every drinking trough, every bowl
to keep their wings light and dry.
They need to be constantly repaired,
as not to fall away from God,
or from the sky - lost in thought.
They don't know where to put their wings,
when they love each other or quarrel.
They often just sit there impassively ,
when they should be protecting children
or listen to the wishes of the desperate.
Too many fall in love unhappily
with water bowls of toy dogs,
try to drink against the bowl silence.
They never give up
even after hundreds of years.
But what is time in their world?
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​​Post 26.12.24
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Flux winter orange walk
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​​Post 30.12.24 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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​The “Book of Questions”
(Libro de preguntas) was published
posthumously in 1974 after Pablo Neruda's death.
It is divided into 74 sections
numbered in Roman numerals.
I like the book so much
that some years ago I started
to write new sections, also using the
Roman numerials.
This is my sixth post
with the numerial 80,
other releases will follow.
Why is it not raining
giraffes and hippos
instead of cats and dogs?
Tonight's dream,
why can't he be my guest
for a few days?
If there were a heaven after death,
would there still be mornings
and evenings?
Where do we go
when we sit on a chair?
When we sing to ourselves in the forest,
does the blackbird and the other birds
listen to our song?
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​​Post 4.1.25
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Snow wind flux walk to ex NATO towers at the czech german border
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​​Post 4.1.25 (Cover von 9 Fotos)
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All football matches all wars
in a hundred years and later
have already passed.
All goals have been scored,
houses torn to pieces,
all kisses already kissed kissed kissed
all humans already died died died
were born born born
Alle Fußballspiele alle Kriege
in hundert Jahren und später
sind schon vorbei gezogen.
Alle Tore schon geschossen,
alle Häuser schon beschossen,
alle Küsse schon geküsst küsst küsst
wir Menschen gestorben storben storben
geboren boren boren
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​​Post 7.1.25
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This is my first post
of the series: "Please forgive me"
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​​Post 11.1.25
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Some time ago I found pictures
that my children took with their first pink pop art camera, that could fall down without pain.
It was also their first time using filters.
I hope you like them without these
personal memories. I did not change anything on the photos.
Other posts will follow.
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​​Post 11.1.25 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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This is my second post of the series:
"Please forgive me"
I got the idea from a poem of mine
that I wrote some time ago:
How does someone look like
who wants to steal all belly buttons?
Who came up with such a shitty idea?
Which is completely impracticable too.
What does he want to achieve?
To return them for a high ransom?
Trying to create a new religion?
A separate universe with our illuminated bellybuttons
like stars in his sky?
Or even in our sky?
Perhaps he has missed a nurturing mother, wants to take revenge
on her or get everything back,
that cannot be retrieved.
Perhaps an irresponsible therapist
has given him this as homework
until the next session.
Either way,
the matter remains impracticable.
It's bad enough that such ideas
are even put into the world
by someone I unfortunately know well.
Wie sieht jemand aus,
der alle Bauchnäbel stehlen will?
Wer kommt auf so eine so beschissene Idee?
Die obendrein vollkommen undurchführbar ist.
Was will er damit erreichen,
will er sie teuer gegen Lösegeld zurückgeben?
Eine neue Religion damit schaffen?
Ein eigenes Universum mit unseren beleuchteten
Bauchnäbel wie Sterne an seinem Himmel
oder gar an unserem?
Vielleicht hat ihm die nährende Mutter gefehlt,
will er sich an ihr rächen oder alles zurück holen,
was nicht zurück zu holen ist.
Vielleicht hat ihm ein verantwortungsloser
Therapeut das als Hausaufgabe bis zur nächsten
Sitzung aufgegeben.
Wie auch immer,
die Sache bleibt undurchführbar,
schlimm genug, dass solche Ideen
überhaupt in die Welt gesetzt werden
von Jemand, den ich leider gut kenne.
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​​Post 12.1.25
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This haiku in japanese language
is one of the most famous haiku
of Basho, a Zen writer in the 17th century:
The old pond.
A frog jumps in -
the sound of water
Japanese haiku usually consist of
three word groups of 5 - 7 - 5 sound units,
I am interested in Zen and practising it
for a long time. Some time ago I intuitively
started to write " bad haiku" that deliberately
don't fulfil the criteria of a haiku:
being concrete, in reference to the present moment
and of course being conscious out of some kind of enlightment.
Maybe these "bad haiku" help me and you on the path of
full understanding.
Other posts will follow.
Dieses Haiku in japanischer Sprache
ist eines der berühmtesten Haiku
von Basho, einem Zen-Dichter des 17. Jahrhunderts:
Der alte Teich.
Ein Frosch springt hinein -
Geräusch des Wassers
Japanische Haiku bestehen gewöhnlich aus
drei Wortgruppen von 5 - 7 - 5 Lauteinheiten.
Ich interessiere mich für Zen und praktiziere es
seit langem. Vor einiger Zeit habe ich intuitiv
begonnen, „schlechte Haiku“ zu schreiben, die absichtlich
die Kriterien eines Haiku nicht erfüllen:
konkret, auf den gegenwärtigen Moment bezogen
und bewusst geschrieben aus einer Art von Erleuchtung heraus.
Vielleicht helfen diese „schlechten Haiku“ mir und euch auf dem Weg zum Vollen Verstehen.
Weitere Beiträge werden folgen.
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​​Post 13.1.25
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This is my second post of "bad haiku"
I decided to choose pictures that
barely match with the texts.
The idea and concept of it you can read in my last post.
Enjoy.
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​​Post 14.1.25 (Cover von 7 Fotos)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DE7kMnPNlpy/
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Flux excursion in January
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​​Post 17.1.25 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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If I tore up 10,000 watches -
time wouldn't care.
And if I took opium and lived
in my deams for a hundred years -
time wouldn't give a shit.
And if I successfully launched a super
hacker attack on all computers in the world -
time wouldn't turn over in its sleep.
And if I were to fall off a hundred meter cliff -
time wouldn't even look.
And if I stopped eating
and drinking for some reason -
time would continue to
perform its digits gymnastics.
And if I hid in a drawer or bucket -
time would always find me,
flood my ears with its clocks tick.
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​​Post 20.1.25
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This is my seventh post on Nerudas
"book of questions". Enjoy
If there were no religions,
would our world be a more peaceful place?
Shouldn't unicorns and mermaids
in children's books sometimes have to
wash themselves?
If the animals in the forests were armed,
would there be more or fewer hunters?
If we could not speak,
who would we prefer to keep quiet with?
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​​Post 24.1.25
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In his video message on January 7, Zuckerberg announced, among other things, the decision to stop professional fact-checking expertise and, under the heading of “freedom of expression”, to put a much softer stand on hate speech and discriminatory statements. It will now be allowed f. ex. to call homosexuals “mentally disturbed”. (Yes, yes, God created the world 4,000 years ago, there was no evolution, homosexuality is a sin and anyone who is, should find an evangelical “therapist” who can cure him or her of this disorder... etc etc.) Such and other views should then have equal rights as free speech.
In his choice of words, Zuckerberg is adopting key messages from the US American right, evangelicals and the Trump movement. Kneeling before Trumpism or a radical change of opinion or both? Either way....
It is outrageous how quickly the protection of minorities no longer counts and diversity can be erased by the so called "mainstream".
As an artist who presents himself on Instagram, I protest against this in the strongest possible terms! To set a sign, I will be putting a black mourning stripe on the upper right-hand corner of my next posts for some time. Maybe you find other ways of expressing your discontent. As artists we are curious and open minded to other people and cultures, let's continue to fight for these values, also in Instagram.
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​​Post 25.1.25
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M - swarm
Audio: Cheers at the closing speech of Adolf Hitler at the 6th Party Congress of the NSDAP Nuremberg 1934
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​​Post 25.1.25 (Reel Video)
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Flux Trump landing - Is there water? Are there forms of life? Is there empathy? Is there mercy?
The images are facial excerpts from the official Trump portrait
for the inauguration ceremony of his 2nd presidency on January 20.
On the cover picture you see the original Apollo 11 lunar landing module from July 1969
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​​Post 26.1.25 (Cover von 10 Fotos)
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This morning I went to the ATM,
to take a few photos for this post. At the counter next door an older man was withdrawing money. It took him ages. I wanted to be alone,
just me taking photos and the security camera. I hastily took a few quick shots, one of which I chose as the background. Enjoy
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​​Post 27.1.25
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This series of pictures on Bach flower diagnoses and remedies I did some years ago. At that time I read a book of Edzard Ernst on different alternative medicine and its scientific effectiveness in the treatment of mental and physical problems. The book was really sobering: most of the stuff people buy in pharmacies or much treatment by body therapists has no proven healing effect. In this period I created these self ironical portraits.
Other posts will follow. Enjoy.
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​​Post 29.1.25 (Cover of 3 photos)
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Flux thursday morning free time
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​​Post 30.1.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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This is my eighth post on Nerudas
"book of questions". Enjoy
What does the moon
whisper tenderly in the sea's ear,
that it persuades its waves to ebb and flow?
Which animal would we most like to be
and how could we be wary of humans?
If cars could get a full bladder,
would they do their business as secretly
as we do ours?
Can a corner of something
be afraid of death?
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​​Post 31.1.25
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"Gleichschaltung" is the German word for the totalitarian control over all aspects of the German society under Hitler 1933 - 1945. Gleichschaltung is starting in the USA now in all kind of forms.
80 years after Hitler the means of controlling and manipulating people are far greater.
"Which side are you on?" the system asks it's citizen. "Are you for us or against us?"
Gleichschaltung only works with prominent personalities, that support and promote the system and profit from it. You name it.
Let's find creative forms of protest against a system that tries to bring people into line.
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​​Post 31.1.25 (Cover mit 9 Photos)
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This is my second post of self ironical portraits on Bach flower diagnoses and remedies. Enjoy.
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​​Post 3.2.25 (Cover of 3 photos)
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I have been thinking for a while, how to comment on this post.
Once again, it is an excerpt from a photo in an old family album. This I can reveal: it has no connection to the Nazi era or any other cruel historical context.
After finishing this post, I looked at it for some time and started to feel kind of scared of it, in reality afraid of the disturbing attacks on democracy, that are right now happening in Europe and the USA.
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​​Post 7.2.25
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Again another detail of an old
family photo. The people in the
50th and early 60th mostly looked
stiff and frozen into the cameras.
Growing up in these years was kind of a challenge, but rebellious times were coming soon
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​​Post 7.2.25
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When a consumer product dies
one evening in April
after the big storms
and loud rains.
(It may be a hair dryer or
a wine opener or a lighter
or something else).
Please don't go away.
Keep giving me light.
Warm my skin.
Whisper something to me.
Please stay.
Don't leave me alone.
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​​Post 10.2.25
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The day Hitler came to power on the 30th of January 1933 the German writer Lion Feuchtwanger said: "Hitler means war". There are many similarities between Hitler and Trump: the uncontrolled behaviour , the strong urge to take revenge, the inability to bear criticicm, all kind of forms of racism.
As with Hitler, his aggressive foreign policy of threatening, humiliating and oppressing other nations in a variety of ways is particularly dangerous. Like back in 1933. After 12 years of Hitler, Europe was destroyed, 60 to 80 million people died from war and murder.
Trump means war. Let's resist!
Attribution:<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_and_Melania_Trump.jpg">Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons
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​​Post 15.2.25
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To celebrate my first 1000 followers and 100 posts, I took a portrait of myself today with two toasters hanging down. My brother and one of my daughters assisted me with the preparations and photos. Many thanks for that!
I thought it might be interesting to show you some of the preparations and therefore I included a few photos.
I really enjoyed it making a post again that carries no weight of meaning.
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​​Post 16.2.25 (Cover photo of 6 photos)
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This is my first post of the series "Food market information".
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​​Post 17.2.25
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This is my first post of the series "Food market information".
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​​Post 17.2.25
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This is another photo excerpt from an old family album,
that I turned upside down. It is really fun, to search for such motivs and give them other meanings and a new life.
Enjoy.
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​​Post 17.2.25
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Driving along a country road at night.
A fictitious creature,
a mixture of wild candles
and silk butter
suddenly crosses the road.
I brake sharply,
almost ran it over.
I get out of the car,
try to lure it towards me.
It approaches cautiously.
How do I know that it feeds
on white rainbow beans?
I have - thank goodness
a bag of them in the car.
It eats all the beans,
then disappears into the bushes.
I shouldn't have touched it,
now my hands are all greasy
and a candle
is burning on my head,
that I can't blow out.
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​​Post 20.2.25
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​Flux special acrobats (mixed performance)
Enjoy.
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​​Post 22.2.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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​Flux special acrobats (night performance)
Enjoy.
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​​Post 23.2.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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This is my ninth post on Nerudas
"book of questions". Enjoy!
Do the children of the stars
get sometimes sick
and can they find
a doctor within reach?
If we could cough out
our misfortunes like Snow White
the poisoned apple,
would we be happier overall?
How would a prison have to dress up
that we could fall in love with it?
Which earrings would
suit the jaybird best?
Are there underpants in any of the worlds
that can nail a picture to the wall?
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​​Post 23.2.25
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This is my first Fluxbox post.
Others will follow. Enjoy.
Cut yourself
into pieces.
Shuffle yourself.
Put yourself
back together again.
Invite friends.
Have a party.
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​​Post 24.2.25
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This is my second post on bad haiku. Enjoy
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​​Post 28.2.25 (Cover of 5 photos)
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​This is my first post with screenshots of movies that I made. The two pictures
are from a movie on the Age
of Enlightment. I took them out of the
original context and gave them new meanings.
I was inspired for this post
by the “Hainish” science fiction
novels by Ursula Le Guin, which
I am currently reading with enthusiasm.
Le Guin was also a fighter for world peace and tolerance among people.
Other posts will follow.
Enjoy!
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​​Post 5.3.25 (Cover of 2 photos)
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The bombing of Tokyo on March 10, 1945 was not the first and not the last war crime committed by the USA against the civilian population of another country. 80,000 to 100,000 women, men and children were burned alive at that day. 279 B 29 bombers dropped 1680 tons of bombs on Tokyo. Most of them were cluster bombs that exploded a few hundred meters above the ground, each releasing 38 containers full of napalm that razed large parts of the city with its predominantly wooden houses to the ground. It was an attack that was deliberately carried out against the civilian population. It happened a few months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is less in the public consciousness.
Behind such crimes are always people who gave orders and carried out these orders. Yet no one has ever been convicted for this crime, it should finally be named as a war crime by the UN.
There is no excuse, no justification for this criminal act.
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Post 10.3.25
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Look through microscopes
250 years ago
while walking
through a forest
in spring time.
This is my second post with
reels from a movie on the age
of enlightment that I made
12 years ago.
Drawings: Martin Frobenius
Ledermüller/ Nachlese seiner
mikroskopischen Gemüths- und
Augen- Ergötzung (1762)
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Post 12.3.25 (Reel Video)
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Dance with the leaves
in your hand at night.
Give them names.
Ask them how they make love
to get children.
This is my third post with
a reel from a movie on the age
of enlightment that I made
some time ago.
Carl von Linné (1707 - 1778)
was the founder
of encyclopaedic scientific directories
in botany and zoology. In his drawings
in this reel, he is doing research
on the reproduction of plants.
Source of the drawings: Carl von Linné:
Praeludia Sponsaliorum Plantarum (1729)
Audio: Emotions - Tokay (2023)
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Post 13.3.25 (Reel Video)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/reel/DHOiRSSxePR/
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Transform yourself into
two plant drawings
on a vertical forest stage.
Perform mindful body movements
from an old handwritten script
This is my fourth post of
a reel from a movie on the age
of enlightment that I made
some time ago.
‘The Gardener's dictionary’ by Philipp Miller
(editions 1731 to 1761) was
an important reference for the creation of English gardens in the 18th century.
These should be designed
like a landscape painting and reflect
the principle of a natural landscape -
to give pleasant and varied
impressions to the viewer.
Sources:
Ludwig Count Cobenzl (1743/44 to 1791) :
handwritten notes on the planting of ‘beautiful plants from Miller's garden encyclopaedia,
that can endure the cold climate’
(Moravian Provincial Archives Brno)
Plant drawings from: Hortus Eystettensis /Basilius Besler 1613
Sound
Out of the Skies, Under the Earth - Chris Zabriskie
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Post 15.3.25 (Reel Video)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/reel/DHRHX5IRq8X/
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When the skies are flying
around dazzlingly
through caves and landscapes,
they either cannot sleep
or they are searching all their love letters,
written with sunshine rain wind
This is my fifth post
from a movie on the Age
of Enlightment that I made
years ago.
Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld,
a German Enlightenment
gardening theorist,
emphasized in his very popular book
“Theorie der Gartenkunst” (1779)
the English garden compared to
the baroque French garden.
He advocated the public park,
in which all social classes
can enjoy nature.
The drawings are from his work,
including the grave of Jean Jacques
Rousseau,who in his novel “Julie or
The New Heloise” - one of the most
popular books of the 18th century -
describes an idealized English garden.
sound:
Porque Me Dejaste En El Coche -
Selva de Mar (Free Music Archive)
Audio: Emotions - Tokay (2023)
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Post 17.3.25 (Reel Video)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/reel/DHIvGNSxR3N/
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Flux 17.3.25
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Post 18.3.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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Flux 21.3.25
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Post 21.3.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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Flux water stains ratatouille.
Excerpts from drawings by the
Baroque architect Maurizio Pedetti
(1719 - 1999) and photos from
various museums in Tirana/Albania
on the Enver Hoxha dictatorship
(1944 - 1985/90) and the fight for
independence until 1945.
Translation from the second post:
"...remains as such and not as a faction in this war.
Our war, which has been going on for a year,
cannot disappear with a conference,
no matter how much Balli tries to bring
us under his control, and on the contrary,
we should bring our own struggle as a faction
of it. I forgive you. ditto"
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Post 21.3.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DHlOTqCNJKH/
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No human being is illegal.
This is my first flux border.
Others will follow.
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Post 23.3.25
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The 30-year-old Turkish student and doctoral candidate Rumeysa Öztürk is stopped, encircled, tied up and taken away in Boston by 6 masked human beings on her way to break her Ramadan fast, watched by a surveillance camera. Her screams of fear are another grim low in the brutality and lawlessness of the Trump administration. The images could have been recorded in Moscow, Beijing or Tehran.
Who are these dark and menacing figures and who gave the orders, the chain of command. The apparent leader who first stops, attacks and later ties up the young woman makes the mistake of looking directly into the camera once, two other faces can be seen before the masking.
Link to see the video:
https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892
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Post 27.3.25 (Reel Audio)
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Dark
darker
the darkest
These are again photos of the arrest of Rumeysa Öztürk in Boston by 6 masked police people. I decided, to drop excerpts from arrest photos ( or people already arrested) in Russia, China, Iran and Poland during the Nazi era in the arrest pictures of the student in Boston.
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Post 30.3.25 (Cover post of 5 pictures)
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I guess this post will not get many likes, I don't care about it. Enjoy.
First Flux prediction of the
WHITE PRESSURE SPRING BOX
"You will become
a little invisible goblin.
In one of the next nights
you will enter the bedroom
of the US American president
with a hammer and a chisel.
You will climb on his face
and start working...
Afterwards you will undergo
a thirty days goblin
purification ceremony,
before you can join
one of the goblin communities.
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Post 31.3.25 (Cover post of 5 pictures)
https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DH_FuiwNlBj/
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They are marching forward until the end of...
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Post 3.4.25 (Cover post of 10 pictures)
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Now we corn poppies
will celebrate.
Our blades never want
to stand still anymore.
We have decoded the wind.
It can no longer be switched off.
You little creatures are all invited.
Swinging dancing Bimbam -
the new red masked DJ
will put on the music
in our infinite Milky Way.
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Post 3.4..25
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This is my tenth post in Pablo Nerudas "Book of questions". Enjoy!
Potato sack in the cellar -
what are you hiding from me
in your darkness?
The pair of ducks,
flying over us -
have they not heard us
quarreling about something?
What would our thoughts look like
if we could see them with a microscope
or a binocular?
If they could scent us like deer
where would they run to?
Who would dare
to leave the house in the dark,
if the night was the tongue
of a wild beast.
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Post 4.4..25
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Lock yourself away for a night
with a friend in a large public library.
Go to the fiction section.
Take one novel at a time
from the shelves.
Read aloud on the last page
the last sentence.
Then put the book back.
Take turns reading last sentences
until the sun rises.
Never read from the same book twice.
Source: New York State Public Library
23. 4.17 author: kabitanath7 (pixabay)
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Post 4.4..25
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Circus family visit this afternoon. In the beginning my daughters complained, that I took so many photos (on stupid details), later they gave up or didn't care about it anymore because of the fascinating artists.
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Post 7.4..25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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This is the second post on my circus visit yesterday with my family. Enjoy
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Post 8.4..25 (Coverpost of 10 photos)
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This is my third post on "bad haiku". Enjoy
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Post 11.4..25 (Coverpost of 5 photos)
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Nine windows and a horse leg.
Flux visit of the German city of Eisenach and its country side…
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Post 19.4..25 (Coverpost of 10 photos)
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Flux Happy Easter...
(Photograph 1 and 7: Lara Strobel)
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Post 20.4..25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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Flux visit of the German city of Eisenach and it´s country side. Second post.
Photograph 8: "Katzen gegen Rechts" means "Cats against right"
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Post 21.4.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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"Beauty and the Beast" - a photo story
From the song "Beauty and the Beast":
Fairytales are written by time
And time and time again they turn out to be true
Until recently, they have barely known each other
But then they faced each other after all
And against all odds, it suddenly seemed obvious.
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Post 22.4.25 (Cover of 10 photos)
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https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DI4kyAttcc8/
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I really enjoyed it looking for tongues of heraldic and state flag animals, giving them the ones in a lifetime chance to get to know each other intimately.
This is my first post on coat of arms and state flags. Others will follow.
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Post 25.4.25 (Cover of 5 photos)
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https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DI6vUgCtz6V/
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Visit the word "flower"
in a line of poetry
by J. W. von Goethe and Charles Simic.
Ask the two lines
to introduce themselves to each other.
Suggest a café nearby,
where they can get
to know each other better.
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Post 26.4.25 (Cover of 5 photos)
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What the hell is this?
Looks like a really bad copy
of a greeting Elon Musk,
produced by an AI algrithsm.
How long will it take,
to clone people like him in masses?
The time is now.
It is happening right now.
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Post 28.4.25 (Cover of 5 photos)
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https://www.instagram.com/saramant98/p/DJHpf1QNKks/
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The asparagus season is underway.
When I finished this post, I had to laugh out loud. I look so serious in the photo, although it's actually ridiculous.
I look like a South American dictator who puts refugees from Trump's USA in inhumane prisons. The asparagus in the background have this military camouflage color.
My brother, who took the photo, said to me: don't look so serious - but I couldn't smile at the time of the photo shooting.
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Post 1.5.25
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Some time ago I read something
about the term: Ephemera.
The word derives from the
Greek ephēmeros 'lasting only a day'.
This Greek definition of something
quickly coming and going like a
supermarket receipt or a
handwritten shopping list
took me associatively to its opposite
such as the 3500 years old temple and the royal tombs of Luxor in Egypt, that I visited with my family last summer.
I looked again through the Luxor photos and selected 5 that I combined
with everyday things, everyday observations like objects on the floor, a quick painting, scraps of paper from an advertising pillar, rust spots on a construction waste container,
cobwebs. Let´s call them Ephemera.
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Post 3.5.25 (Cover of 5 photos)
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My toothbrush looks
like a dried-up riverbed.
I could never step on it.
It would be easier
to set a foot on the moon
than on my toothbrush.
Why don't I throw it away,
buy a new one whose bristles
would be unused again?
As if I could buy mornings
at the next kiosk
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Fried egg (framed)
plus 6 bowling balls and 1 shoe
- a photo story
The idea of framing a fried egg
and hanging it on the wall I got
some years ago. (The idea is somehow
so obvious that I'm sure others
have already realized it).
I did it this weekend with my brother.
You can see the various steps
in the photo story. One of my daughters, Lucia, had the idea of hardening the fried egg in the freezer.
The idea was already fun,
the realization even more.
The bowling balls with the shoe
are a bonus picture. Enjoy!
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A tribute to René Magritte
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Five pairs
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Hospital flower portraits
About 20 years ago I was hospitalised
for 5 days because of kidney stones.
I was out of pain very quickly
and just had to wait for the
stones to dissolve.
Other patients were much worse off.
During that time, my girl friend
visited me one day with a nice purple
coloured flower in a vase as a gift.
I asked her to take a few
portrait photos with the flower
and my left arm.
A few days ago, while tidying up,
I found 2 photos from it in a box.
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Night sky bean star -
galaxy sized.
Nobody is huge enough
to peel you like a field bean
and bite into your hot
juicy core.
If I were big enough,
I would love to try from you
with super sun glasses
to protect my eyes from your shining.
And if you tasted good,
I would eat you all up
and take off my glasses.
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My water lilies 3 d printer
This post is my answer to the mostly primitive and kitschy products from private 3D printers such as rabbits, swords, horses, rhinos, which are just waiting, if they had any sense, to be given away as small presents, where they end up at best in some dusty shelf.
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Visit of a small Bavarian castle.
Enjoy.
Two weeks ago, I was at a birthday party with my family on the grounds of the small Castle of Reimlingen in Bavaria. During a guided tour
I learnt about the crusaders of the Teutonic Order, about the victorious battle of a catholic against a protestant army close by and about the love story of a nobleman with a beautiful non-noblewoman, whose daughter Caroline with the long name: Countess von Waldbott von Bossenheim, born as Princess zu Oettingen- Wallerstein can be seen in the last picture with her horse.
For me, too, it was a ride - through 500 years of crazy German history,
that I try to approach with this post.
The pictures 5 and 6 I originally wanted to post in the landscape format, but it didn't work, so they are not presented in the way I intended to post them.
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Visit of a Bavarian castle part two -
with one self - portrait surprise and one bonus dessert.
Enjoy!
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Portrait with jellyfish eye, cactus, transparent divine hand above.
Enjoy!
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Ten daily miracles with one guardian angel on my tongue. Enjoy!
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This post began in the morning
with calyxes on the kitchen window
and a Saturday stroll through a
Bavarian town with lots of interesting doors, windows, shop windows.
It was so much fun to create
some collages in the evening
with the things I collected today.
The morning calyxes accompanied me,
they were my common thread
among the different motifs.
Enjoy.
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Flight of the flower calyxes
with a scrapped kitchen tool.
Have a good and safe journey...
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Ten daily miracles with one guardian angel on my tongue. Enjoy!
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“...I'm in the middle of the film shooting.
Around me are millions of these small and large creatures.
This flapping of wings everywhere,
that makes the branches vibrate
and robs the moonlight
of its peace of mind...”
“Kilometers of folding rules
are brought in, 10 digit numbers
are grotesquely disguised.
Each number is personified
by a different sound,
that the creatures hum...”
“No, I'm not the film director,
I am just carrying around cables,
moving around wardrobes.
Won't be back to work tomorrow,
go to sleep for a week under a big hat,
that I've crocheted out of summer clouds..."
(From my fictional diary about a
Fantasy Movie, that tells
the fabulous story of a fraction calculation)
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A few days ago I saw the documentary “No other land”. No matter how you feel about Gaza and the occupied territories in the West Bank, whether you think it is Apartheid or not, whether you think it is genocide or not: this film confronts you with the brutality of the Israeli occupying army and the Israeli settlers, it penetrates and overwhelms everything you have read and seen about it in newspaper articles and television reports. This Oscar-winning movie is absolutely worth seeing!
In the last few days I constantly thought about scenes in the movie and how I could transform my feelings into art: when wells are filled in with concrete and elementary school are destroyed with bulldozers. And this very strong feeling of the injustice done to the palestinian villagers.
Then Martha Rosler came into my mind. Her old anti war collages finally helped me to find ways to express myself.
So my posts today are a tribute to the New York based photographer and conceptual artist Martha Rosler, who provocatively brought the Vietnam War into the living rooms of middle-class US families in the 1960s with her collages entitled “House beautiful”.
In picture 5 you find me as a young child with my mother behind me.
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In my first sixpack, I would like to bring together posts that I mainly published on Insta in September and October 24. They were one of my first posts, I was completely inexperienced and incredibly excited to see if anyone would be interested in them. Now, after 9 months, I think it's too bad that my first pictures now hardly get any attention. So I put together 6 (plus 2 bonus) pictures, which I took from old family albums and added my own texts.
I remember, it was so great to see uncles and aunts in the pictures from old times (most of them no longer alive) and put them in a completely different context.
Enjoy (again)!
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The wonderful appearance of an orange circle with question and exclamation marks and all the shining inside me and the refrigerator,when I was cleaning it this morning. Enjoy!
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My shadows go metaphysical
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Trip with my work colleagues to Tegernsee/Bavaria in Germany. It was a great day with a boat tour, a guided tour of the town and a good Bavarian meal.
Image 2: The word “König”: Detail from the Tegernsee monument of Maximilian I, Bavarian King from 1806 - 1825
Image 4: “The Last Judgement” (own title)
Source: Georg Asam (1649 - 1711): the St. Quirinus miracle of fire -
Ceiling painting in the Church St. Quirinus in Tegernsee
Image 6: “The miracle of the Holy Colonization” (own title)
Source: Columbus' arrival in the West Indies. Copperplate engraving from: Theodor de Bry (ed.), Americae Pars Quarta...,Frankfurt am M. 1994
Ceiling in the Church St. Quirinus in Tegernsee
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