Monday, July 2.
Today in the morning I was feeling a little under the weather after all the get up and go of Munich, but I decided to check out the Dorotheenstadtischer Friedhof, an old cemetery in Berlin home to many famous faces, included the architect Schinkel, who built many buildings in Berlin. It was very calming and relieving to get out on my own, without having to be with 30 other people (no offense to my lovely KIIS group). Sometimes you just need to explore on your own and take your time on what you want to see.
I enjoyed seeing this cemetery, and I spent a lot of time working on my photos for class.
After grabbing a quick burrito for lunch and ice cream for Sara's birthday, I went to some thrift stores with Rebecca, Mary, and Alex before heading back to rest because I've been sick. Our excursion this evening was to Kreuzberg for a quick tour, and light drawing in front of the East Side Gallery which got postponed due to rain. As we see over and over again, there is a difference between street art and graffiti, though it is not black and white. Here is an interesting guy we found, while not done by some "famous" street artist we have studied, still is a very interesting, fun, and colorful piece.
Here is a great example of the temporality of street art, a mural done just days before for the European Cup final which was last night.
For this tour, I was looking more at the decayed, graffiti side of what we see, because one of my words is verhall, or decay. I particularly like this image. I don't normally notice these types of things, but when you really look you see miniature still lifes all around. Here are some bottle caps piled neatly together, as if someone had done it on purpose. I couldn't resist the grayness of the whole image, and the peeling wall and graffiti.
Here we have another more famous image, quite opposite of what I had been concentrating on for this trip.
I'm sad we missed out on light drawing, but hopefully it works out next week!
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