At work | Bei der Arbeit

At work | Bei der Arbeit

An old friend from uni days stayed with us this week which was a true pleasure. He was in town to record sounds for a sound installation which will be presented in St. Nicolai soon. This is him at work; the grey fluffy thing half-coveredby the right leg is the big...
Main hall | Haupthalle

Main hall | Haupthalle

This is the main hall at Berlin Ostbahnhof. I had half an hour to spare before getting going on my business of the day, so I sat down at McDonald’s with a cuppa and sketched the view. Das ist die Haupthalle in Berlin Ostbahnhof. Ich hatte eine halbe Stunde Zeit,...
Endings | Enden

Endings | Enden

My time in Berlin is slowly coming to an end. Was it a good time? It was. Am I glad it’s coming to an end? I am. Here is a little impression of a sunset at the main train station accompanied by some thoughts of mine in German on the beauty of the city, the...
Thuringia | In Thüringen

Thuringia | In Thüringen

Many years ago, in my first research post actually, I conducted a survey in psychiatric clinics. Only a few clinics were sampled, and one of them was situated in the hill country of Thuringia way in the South. I had driven for hours, administered the survey and was on...
Labour | Arbeit

Labour | Arbeit

Im Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg I finished improving the line work on one of the two big sketches I did in the Museum of Labour in Hamburg yesterday. The coffee display wasn’t really recognisable as that before, so I felt the nib dipped in some ink (and some ink...