Dear Senators, “What do you do with the mad that you feel, when you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole wide world seems so wrong, and nothing you do seems very right? It’s great to be able to STOP when you’ve planned a thing that’s wrong, and be able to do something else instead, and think this song: I can stop when I want to. I can stop when I wish. I can stop stop stop anytime. And know that there’s something deep inside that helps us become what we can.” - Fred Rogers testifying before Senate to save Public Broadcast Station funding. In a short rhyme Mr. Rogers gave hardened senators the loving security to change their minds, the permission to be wrong.
**May the senators deciding in the next two days have the strength of heart, confidence and courage to STOP, and help our nation become what we can.**
Turning old wooden escalators, 80 years old, into a beautiful aerial sculpture celebrating both the past and modernity? This is the idea of the Australian artist Chris Fox, whose creation entitled Interloop has just been installed in the Wynyard Station of the Sydney underground. This monumental installation pays tribute to the old wooden escalators of the city, since replaced by more modern metal versions.
The Cold War is over — yet signs of it still exist. For forty years the Iron Curtain divided the countries of Europe into East and West. The arms race was unleashed, nuclear fallout shelters were constructed, and everyone braced for the worst. Martin Roemers has spent ten years in search of the traces of this period, traveling through the countries of former enemies on both sides of the line. He explored and documented underground tunnels, abandoned system control centers, former barracks, rotting tanks, and destroyed monuments. His photographs, which are presented here with essays by H.J.A. Hofland and Nadine Barth, are a stark and moving document of this era of hostility, deterrence politics, and the arms race — and also serve as an appeal for future peace.
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