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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four". John Cage
The sea was not as rough as predicted, I watched the water swell up around us, making my stomach leave my abdomen which gave me slight pleasure. I watched the landscape change though my ferry window, focusing past the salt crystals and water droplets. Dusk had begun and the lighthouses began to light the path along the fjord back home to the mainland, blinking and waving until the land disappeared.
He pointed out the forts from the Second world war, abandoned satellite stations and a windmill out at sea. We stood there in the lighthouse looking through lenses and watching the rainbows form. We stood there together, surveying the island from the highest point, and watching the weather change. As he spoke I imagined the shy German general on his white horse patrolling the east side with his watercolors in hand. The lighthouse keepers stories kept taking me further and further back in time, while I liste
Residency.ch - International artists in Bern