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Berlin, 27. Dezember 2020

Be Kind to One Another (Rag) by Terry Riley » Sarah Cahill | sarahcahill [dot] com | Video

 

Berlin, 25. Dezember 2020

Sisyphos II [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 14. Dezember 2020

Virus [Gouache on dictionary page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 11. Dezember 2020

Greta Thunberg dismisses 'empty words' in new climate crisis appeal | youtube [dot] com | Video

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Citizens of advanced liberal democracies are in near revolt against their own governments, the 'establishment,' and the politicians they have themselves selected as their leaders and representatives. Overwhelming majorities regard their governments as distant and unresponsive, captured by the wealthy, and ruling solely for the advantage of the powerful. At its inception, liberalism promised to displace an old aristocracy in the name of liberty; yet as it eliminates every vestige of an old order, the heirs of their hopeful antiaristocratic forebears regard its replacement as a new, perhaps even more pernicious, kind of aristocracy. — Patrick J. Deneen. Why Liberalism Failed (2018)

 

Berlin, 26. November 2020

Nashorn I [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Nashorn II [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Nashorn III [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 24. November 2020

Water/eye [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 11. November 2020

Eye/ladder [Gouache/collage on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 9. November 2020

Eye/coil [Gouache/collage on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 8. November 2020

Photo booth [Berlin] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 7. November 2020

Halleluja! | The New York Times - Breaking News, BIDEN BEATS TRUMP | nytimes [dot] com | Link]

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Open Letter: On Philip Guston Now | brooklynrail [dot] org | Link

The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated | nytimes [dot] com | Link

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Berlin, 6. November 2020

World/box [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 5. November 2020

TWENTYTWENTY Installation [2015] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

TWENTYTWENTY Installation at Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON Berlin, 2015 | Gallery

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Election Day Mayhem Began Two Years Ago With Massive Voter Purges | truthout [dot] org | Link

The Purged: The Vanished Voters of Trump's America | youtube [dot] com | Video

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More Than 8 Million Have Been Forced Into Poverty Since COVID Relief Ended in US | truthout [dot] org | Link

 

Berlin, 2. November 2020

Studio [Berlin] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 31. Oktober 2020

Bridge [Hallesches Ufer, Berlin-Kreuzberg] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 25. Oktober 2020

Jon Gibson, Minimalist Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 80 | nytimes [dot] com | Link

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Samuel Paty [France]:

France pays homage to slain teacher Samuel Paty at Sorbonne ceremony | youtube [dot] com | Link

 

Berlin, 23. Oktober 2020

Environment/Global Climate Catastrophe:

The great thaw: global heating upends life on Arctic permafrost – photo essay | theguardian [dot] com | Link

 

Berlin, 19. Oktober 2020

Environment/Global Climate Catastrophe:

'Solastalgia': Arctic inhabitants overwhelmed by new form of climate grief | theguardian [dot] com | Link

Vast majority of Europe's key habitats in poor or bad condition – report | theguardian [dot] com | Link

The World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Has Become an Inferno | nytimes [dot] com | Link

 

Berlin, 16. Oktober 2020

Persephone [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 15. Oktober 2020

Werden und Vergehen [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 27. August 2020

Door [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 16. August 2020

Sarah Cahill | Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley | sarahcahill [dot] com | Link

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M [Gouache on dictionary page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 12. August 2020

Sonnenscheibe [Aztekisch, um 1500] [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 3. August 2020

School is universal. That means, on the street when you talk about these things, with people at the grocer's, the school is at the grocer's at that moment. — Joseph Beuys

 

Berlin, 1. August 2020

Sinkendes Narrenschiff [Stultifera Navis, Sebastian Brant] [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

 

Berlin, 23. Juli 2020

Labyrinth [Cathédrale Notre Dame d'Amiens] [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 22. Juli 2020

Sun [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 14. Juli 2020

Portrait of the artist as a muffin | open | © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

 

Berlin, 11. Juli 2020

Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall | nytimes [dot] com | Link

The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View | quantamagazine [dot] org | Link

 

Berlin, 2. Juli 2020

Kirchturm I, Venasque [Provence, Vaucluse] [Ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Kirchturm II, Venasque [Provence, Vaucluse] [Ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 28. Juni 2020

Excellent music | part one:

John Cage | Mode Records [mode 44] [Ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 26. Juni 2020

Upton Sinclair | The Jungle [1906] [Ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

 

Berlin, 20. Juni 2020

USA 1906 | Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) | 'The Jungle' tells the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago’s meatpacking district determined to live out the American dream/the American nightmare.

 

Berlin, 15. Juni 2020

Interview: Steve Reich Composes During The Coronavirus Crisis | capradio [dot] org | Link

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(...) Die ganze Welt ist nur ein Hospital,
Wo Menschen von unzählbar großer Zahl
Und auch die Kinder in der Wiegen
An Krankheit hart darniederliegen. (...)

J. S. Bach | Cantatas BWV 25 | webdocs [dot] cs [dot] ualberta [dot] ca | Link

 

Berlin, 7. Juni 2020

Michael Gordon | Anonymous Man [Cantaloupe Music, 2020] | vergrössern

michaelgordonmusic [dot] com | Link

Anonymous Man | vimeo [dot] com | Link

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Berlin, 2. Juni 2020

Power – The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3. | vergrössern

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Revolts belong to history. But, in a certain way, they escape from it. The impulse by which a single individual, a group, a minority, or an entire people says, 'I will no longer obey,' and throws the risk of their life in the face of an authority they consider unjust seems to me to be something irreducible. Because no authority is capable of making it utterly impossible (...) — Power. The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3, Useless to revolt? [1979] p. 449-453

 

Berlin, 24. Mai 2020

COVID-19/New York Times Front Page | May 24, 2020 | Link [PDF]

 

Berlin, 22. Mai 2020

Weltweit verschwinden von der Erde rund zehn Millionen Hektar Wald pro Jahr.

FAO/Vereinten Nationen UNEP | Globaler Waldzustandsbericht 2020 | unenvironment [dot] org | Link

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Sisyphos I [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 14. Mai 2020

Michael Gordon | Every Stop On The F Train | michaelgordonmusic [dot] com | Link

Michael Gordon | Last Stop on the F Train — The Bang on a Can Archives | canland [dot] org | Link

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Deforestation and Monoculture Farming Spread COVID-19 and Other Diseases | truthout [dot] org | Link

 

Berlin, 12. Mai 2020

Trump = Plague [Chalk on black paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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'COVID-19 Has Been Racialized': Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking 'Trump = Plague' | democracynow [dot] org | Link

 

Berlin, 4. Mai 2020

CanLand - The Bang on a Can Archives | canland [dot] org | Link

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Berlin, 27. April 2020

Cosmos/Wave [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 17. April 2020

Brushes II [studio] [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Brush I [studio] [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 11. April 2020

Black box [aporia] [Gouache on book page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 7. April 2020

pandemic [Collins Concise English Dictionary] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 5. April 2020

Two snakes [toxic] [Gouache on book page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Allan Sondheim | Plague Journey | youtube [dot] com | Video [31:22] | lung lung blossom | youtube [dot] com | Video [02:25]

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Berlin, 4. April 2020

How the Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World | vulture [dot] com | Link

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Berlin, 3. April 2020

The New York Times | Free E-Book: Answers to Your Coronavirus Questions | nytimes [dot] com | Link

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Antenna for François Truffaut [two] [l'antenne] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Antenna for François Truffaut [one] [l'antenne] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 31. März 2020

Der Staat/die Regierung hat die Pflicht, seine Bürger bestmöglich zu schützen. [Grundrecht auf Sicherheit]

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für jeden Bürger.

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für Klinik-Personal, Krankenpfleger, Altenpfleger, Notfallsanitäter, Labor-Personal.

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für die Polizei und Sicherheits-Personal.

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufer.

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Berlin, 30. März 2020

E-Mail an Frau Dilek Kalayci, Senatorin für Gesundheit, Pflege und Gleichstellung, Senat/Berlin [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise/Senat in Berlin] | [pdf] · download [28 KB]

Forderung: Sofortige Bereitstellung von Atemmasken für die Bevölkerung. Jeder einzelne Bürger hat ein Recht auf Atemmasken zum Schutz seiner Gesundheit und zum Schutz der Gesundheit anderer Menschen.

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Berlin, 29. März 2020

Antwort E-Mail von Benedikt Lux, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses/Berlin [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise] | [pdf] · download [16 KB]

E-Mail an Herrn Benedikt Lux, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses/Berlin [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise] | [pdf] · download [20 KB]

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E-Mail an Herrn Jens Spahn/Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG) | [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise/Bundesgesundheitsministerium] | [pdf] · download [28 KB]

Aus dem E-Mail-Text:

(...) Die jetzt offensichtlichen, extrem schlechten Zustände im Gesundheitswesen Deutschlands sind unerträglich. Daß in einem angeblich so fortschrittlichen, aufgeklärten und reichen Land, in einer globalen Gesundheitskrise nun die Kliniken die Bevölkerung und Unternehmen um Materialspenden bitten müssen ist ein Skandal.

Die Ignoranz und Arroganz der Regierung hat diese Krise unnötig verschärft. Diese Inkompetenz der Politik wird Leben kosten. Ich hoffe Ihnen und Ihrer Behörde wird das endlich bewusst und Sie erhöhen endlich das Tempo und die Geldmittel um eine solche globale Katastrophe adäquat zu bewältigen. (...)

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Berlin, 28. März 2020

E-Mail an die BVG, Frau/Herr Moldenhauer (BVG) | [Betreff: Desinfektion, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus] | [pdf] · download [24 KB]

Antwort E-Mail von Frau/Herr Moldenhauer (BVG) | [Betreff: Desinfektion, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus] | [pdf] · download [24 KB]

E-Mail an die BVG, Herr Dr. Rolf Erfurt (BVG) | [Betreff: Desinfektion, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus] | [pdf] · download [24 KB]

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E-Mail an die Redaktion des Tagesspiegel Berlin | [Betreff: Kritik an ihrer COVID-19 Berichterstattung] | [pdf] · download [40 KB]

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Berlin, 26. März 2020

Sound/head [disintegration] [Gouache on book page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 25. März 2020

Clock/stone [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 23. März 2020

Spreading [dissémination] [Gouache on book page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 22. März 2020

CLOV: Well .. .sooner or later I'd start to stink.
HAMM : You stink already. The whole place stinks of corpses.
CLOV: The whole universe.

— Samuel Beckett, Endgame (1958)

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Berlin, 21. März 2020

Es ist lästig, bei offenkundigen Dingen noch Beweise beizubringen. — Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

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Berlin, 17. März 2020

Stay at home — rester à la maison !

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Berlin, 16. März 2020

Window [fenêtre] [France] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 2. März 2020

Chair [Gouache and ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 23. Februar 2020

Tree/Clock [one] [Gouache on book page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 21. Februar 2020

Sound [one] [Gouache on book page] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 19. Februar 2020

Gap [Lourmarin, Provence] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 16. Februar 2020

Cooking [France] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 3. Februar 2020

Movement [Water] [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 2. Februar 2020

Object [Carpentras] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 16. Januar 2020

Tree [with ladder] [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 14. Januar 2020

Cathédrale Saint Siffrein [Carpentras] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Cathédrale Saint Siffrein [Carpentras] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 13. Januar 2020

Movement [mélanger] [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 12. Januar 2020

(...) You'll walk that floor - and wear out your shoes
When you feel your heart break - you're learnin' the blues (...)

— Learnin' the Blues [Song written by Dolores 'Vicki' Silvers; recorded by Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra in 1955]

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Shoes [dignity of shoes]

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Berlin, 9. Januar 2020

Movement [Water] [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2020 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Berlin, 1. Januar 2020

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. — Henry D. Thoreau, Walking (first published in the 'Atlantic Monthly' in 1862)

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Shoes [dignity of shoes II] [Gouache and ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2019 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Shoes [dignity of shoes]

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