my home is outside (to Cesar Manrique)
posted by SMELTPUNT at 10:23 p.m.
Luísa, Jörn and Mafalda invite you to see a new photo every day, usually taken in The Netherlands, and occasionally somewhere else. We hope you enjoy it. Feel free to comment :-)
6 Comments:
very strange perspective... was this photo taken from a hole in the ground??
i dont get it. can you explain?
very poetical though.i like the new perspective and the home being outside. No more boxes :P ...still one there.. hmm?
Riddle explanation attempt:
If trees grow inside vulcano vents, why not build a museum next to them as well?
for sure living in a cave would be a very unique and fruitful experience for everyone. how was it, mafalda?
OR its just nice to have a house and....chose not to live in it!!
as having a cake and not eat it!
or even (like us now inside this room) have a life out there to live, beautiful places to go and....not doing it!
Wow... explaining is destroying, but ok!
This is a photo taken from one of the sections of the CM house-foundation. A major part of the house is built underground, which is appropriate for these sunny-hot climates. This pic in particular, was taken from one of the underground level "halls", surrounded by walls made of the original volcanic rock, having a tree in the middle which grows up to the upper layer and that you can see on the photo as well.
Because the house is "half-organic" and because CM dedicated a major part of his work caring about how people would live in the island (outside), the title occurred to me as some kind of acknowledgement of his effort - apart form being his job to do so. The two-lines of text are taken from a poem written to him by Rafael Alberti, which is next to his self-portrait, also at the foundation, and which self-portrait I will probably post one of these days.
Even cavemen needed caves. But do mencave need men? chanchan!! (just kidding, folks)
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