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In the Beauty Parlors and Bunkers of Berlin

July 23, 2010
By quintan
In the Beauty Parlors and Bunkers of Berlin

The tint my hairdresser put in my hair will gradually work its way, over the years, down to the ends of my hair, and perhaps eventually it will be cut off. But IT will be in there, this morning in Berlin when I sat in a barber's chair over Hitler's death place getting my...
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Terezin Shechinah שכינה

July 20, 2010
By quintan
Terezin Shechinah שכינה

May it be the Shechinah who dwells now at Terezin. I have nothing to say tonight.
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Extinction Porn Tourism: Europe’s Jewish Ghettos

July 16, 2010
By quintan

At the Spanish Synagogue in Prague today, extinction-porn tourists gathered round an unexpected attraction: schoolboys from Israel. “Look – LIVE Jews!!” As if a sabre-tooth tiger had appeared, or a Pterodactyl, or a Comanche princess. Cameras clicking in their faces. Children pointed. Muttering spread throughout...
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11 July: Exhibit and Reading at Kebbel Villa/Oberpfälzer KünstlerHaus

July 6, 2010
By quintan
"Fossoyeur/Gravedigger" 30x30 digital c-print on rag paper  (c) Quintan Ana Wikswo

On Sunday 11 July, the Oberpfälzer KünstlerHaus outside Regensburg, Germany, will exhibit my works-on-paper, and I will read from my recently-released book of photographs and a long prose poem: Schwarzer Tod...
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10 JULY: Exhibit at Schloss Plüschow with Paetrick Schmidt

July 6, 2010
By quintan
10 JULY: Exhibit at Schloss Plüschow with Paetrick Schmidt

The painter and soul-brother-of-BumbleMoth Paetrick Schmidt and I have a month long two-person show opening this weekend at Schloss Plüschow on the beautiful Baltic coast here in Germany. Our ongoing collaborative...
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everyone has decided to survive this catastrophe

June 30, 2010
By quintan
everyone has decided to survive this catastrophe

Last night I took the night train through Bavaria into Munich.  I had the high bed, right at the top of the car. It was late, and we closed...
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Why Am I Here: My Letter to Helen Thomas, and to all those who wander with wreathes

June 22, 2010
By quintan
Why Am I Here: My Letter to Helen Thomas, and to all those who wander with wreathes

This summer I am a resident artist in the very tiny village called Schwandorf …well, let’s just say “somewhere in Bavaria” and we...
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When You Try To Kill Something: The Paradox of Bavaria

June 19, 2010
By quintan
When You Try To Kill Something: The Paradox of Bavaria

This morning I was taking photographs of the small tributary of the Danube that runs behind my studio, and when I turned around to adjust my films, I saw...
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A Tuscan Juxtaposition: Old Jewish Cemetery in Florence

June 17, 2010
By quintan
A Tuscan Juxtaposition: Old Jewish Cemetery in Florence

Between my first and second day working at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Florence, someone came with a scythe and cut down the tall grasses – within hours the...
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A Catty Epitaph: The Mourner of the Old Jewish Cemetery, Florence

June 16, 2010
By quintan
A Catty Epitaph: The Mourner of the Old Jewish Cemetery, Florence

Outside the gates of Florence, there is a small Jewish cemetery – crumbled and broken gravestones can be read only by a familiar eye. In this nearly abandoned and...
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They Must Have Been Fascinated By Her Lack Of Animosity: War Birds VI

June 14, 2010
By quintan
They Must Have Been Fascinated By Her Lack Of Animosity: War Birds VI

In the early 1940s, my grandfather raised homing pigeons in a small town in rural Virginia. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector and refused to fight....
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Wildflowers of Dachau at Block 31

June 6, 2010
By quintan
Wildflowers of Dachau at Block 31

I arrived in Munich in a rainy winter’s June morning, and twenty-four hours later was on the train out of Marienplatz and bound for Dachau.  In a place made...
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BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)