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geisternatur music mix: feb' 18 - trails of love in a glasshouse of monsters.

artificial tears by evelyn bencicova melodies that curse & harm, but also sedate & cure.

september '17: fall gradients.

racy porsche in modern ambience. autumn is most beautiful when the sun's shining and the red/orange/yellow/brown hues are emphasized double the amount than normal. when i have time off and the weather's all clear & shiny you will definitely not hold me back from heading outside. on this late september day i decided to head for a walk near my workplace and went in for a treat as the trees & bushes changed their green summer dresses into the colourful gradients that autumn always brings to us. on days like these, love washes over me in bouts, almost too much to handle. post-modernism is very present in wiesbaden as well, and ( actually really surprising to me ) especially in residential buildings. loved the colours of this house and how it perfectly matched the changing leaves of the growth nearby. rowan berry overload. beautiful garden terrace of an arts & craft mansion built by karl kähler in 1910. this monumental building is part of...

september '17: the dead & the living.

mortuary of sonnenberg cemetery framed by perfect red trees. it's strange, but as soon as autumn hits us there's that invisible pull that makes me want to visit cemeteries. i guess it's the correlation of a moribund nature & a place of the deceased, which in my head goes hand in hand very well. there's an aura to cemeteries around this time of the year that is hard to ignore, haunting, bewitching, phantasmal. for me, cemeteries were never places of sadness & despair, but fascinating & daunting, exciting even. there is a calmness to them that i always think of as soothing & regenerative. even as a kid i begged my parents to come along for visits to my grandparent's grave. it was always so interesting for me to walk next to the graves and read when someone was born and then died, to calculate how old they were or to read the memorials. i loved looking at the decors on some caves, fresh flowers, wilted ones, neatly tended or long forgotten. all t...