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Week 6 – no comment

I have to leave you. Again. Soon.

*Berlin Hauptbahnhof (central station) – 15 June 2026.*

*“Plot twist: your vacation begins here.” Dussmann KulturKaufhaus, one of my favourite places in Berlin – 16 June 2026.*

*“Ovine trinity.” Pfaueninsel, 17 June 2026.*

62 seconds; leucistic snow-white Indian peafowl 🦚 , Pfaueninsel – 17 June 2026.

*On 2 June 1915, Albert Einstein presented his Theory of Relativity to the public for the first time in this hall at Berlin’s Archenold Observatory – 19 June 2026.*

*I just got here, I have to leave. Berlin Elsenbrücke – 19 June 2026.*

*“Der Sommertopf über die Hauptstadt.” Berlin Westkreuz, 20. Juni 2026.*

*Botschaft (embassy), Berlin Leipziger Platz – 21 June 2026.*

Week 5 – no comment

With brand new captions

*Mary Jane, Mustafa’s, Mehringdamm. Berlin – 7 June 2026.*

*S-Bahn Berlin, Greifswalder Strasse station – 10 June 2026.*

*Chris Gueffroy, 20, shot to death by East German border guards on 5 February 1989 at the Berlin Wall* – *11 June 2026.*

*“ON!” at Berlin Savignyplatz – 12 June 2026.*

*Albert & Elsa Einstein’s summer house (1929 to 1933) in Caputh – 13 June 2026.*

*Late-day illumination at Potsdamer Platz 10. Berlin – 13 June 2026.*

*Helmut Newton for “Elle”, Paris 1969. Berlin Museum für Fotografie – 14 June 2026.*

31 seconds: Berlin “Set Theory” Clock display from 1925h to 1926h, 14 June 2026.

Astronomer Johannes Kepler: birth town Weil der Stadt

Above/featured: Johannes Kepler memorial at Marktplatz in Weil der Stadt. Photo, 21 Jul 2024 (P15).

I first heard the name “Kepler” way back in high school. I had no idea “Kepler” would embody a winding trail of education, knowledge, a “first life” (career), and a deep lifelong appreciation of science. Thankfully, what’s transformed has been a “second life” opened to another world with more questions, some of which have led to unexpected places. Perhaps, the cost is a solitary quest for answers, but ultimately, my motivation has always been clear: it’s because I need to know.

In the same way Kepler, like many others before and after, looked up at night and asked a simple question: “why do stars and planets appear and move as they do in the sky?”

To the here and now, my questions begin and land on our own planet.

For example, where was Kepler born? Where is this place? Are there any traces in those spaces?

But first, who was Kepler?

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Vienna Albertina: Brigitte Kowanz, light is what she saw

Above/featured: “Light is what we see”, 1994/2019. (A part of Speed of Light/4m with the digits 6-3 appears at the right edge.)

Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (1957–2022) held an enduring fascination for light. Light wasn’t simply the medium through which information propagated. Light itself was also a tool and mould for illumination, reflection, and even introspection. There’s something in her light-based artworks which allude not only to her philosophy and worldview, but also to her clear interest for science. Her works also anticipate and explore timely themes, including what it means to live in an information-rich society that fully embraces digital habitats and virtual spaces. There’s a spirit of fun and “lightness” mixed with a serious appreciation for the history of technology with her frequent use of Morse code. To me, Kowanz’s body of work is a wonderful manifestation of the 1964 statement by Canadian philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan: “The medium is the message.”

I arranged my 2025 stay in Vienna to coincide with the final week of the Francesca Woodman exhibition and the beginning of an exhibition on Brigitte Kowanz, both held at the Albertina gallery-museum. Since Kowanz’s passing in 2022, the first major solo exhibition was a retrospective of her work titled “Light is what we see”. The Albertina has fast become a favourite, having seen an exhibition of photographer Gregory Crewdson’s work in the summer of 2024.

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