mardi 4 avril 2017

The Rhine falls : an open door for imagination.

Schaffhausen - a city that is situated in the eastern part of Switzerland - is famous for the Rhine falls. The first black and white pictures with the castle on the top of the rocks have a Caspar David Friedrich romantic paintings atmosphere. The next two pictures highlight the green mosses that seems to illustrate the  apparently desperate but victorious in the facts try of the vegetation to surivive in an hostile environment. Then a blue door and a strange window, metaphors of the falls as an open gate to new spaces and imagination. There is a strong contrast between the windows that invites us to travel and the tree on its right that symbolizes roots and origins. In reality this apparent contrast is a balance every people with a nomad soul knows a bit more at each journey. The more we travel the more we know where we come from. The more we travel the bigger our roots grow. The last picture shows the historical part of Schaffhausen. Its roots.