Cacti in Rotterdam
May 4th:
Absolutely not chronological because there is about a month missing here. A month where a lot happened, bliss and sunshine and bridges and scooters and markets....appreciating the colour of fruits and vegetables amongst the chaos of yells in Dutch with Turkish accents about 1 euro banana bunches etc.....Anyways, I need to get this off my chest because I think its hilarious. Art shows with free wine are great but sometimes the free booze is necessary as it was tonight. For me to appreciate the finer points in cacti plucking I did need the four or five plastic glasses of red wine. I walked into a quiet room, dark except for grow lights showering naked orchid plants, hanging from wires with water-test tube things clamped onto them....then a crowd gathered around what? Dripping noise...maybe some sort of green house demonstration? No, three people, gazes focused intensely on a table full of cacti, pine cones, dried leaves and stalks...other 'florae'....The dripping noise I heard was actually a woman intensely plucking a cactus plant that was mic'd up. She was plucking it with a toothpick. Meanwhile the other lady was shaking a dried bean pod and a man was sitting and occasionally stroking a mic'd cactus with a brush. This was supposed to be some sort of contemporary symphony. I was laughing on the inside, but Boaz, the crazy out of control welder from Israel got hammered and was commenting about the "soulful cactus solo" and I couldnt help but let out a laugh which wasnt received well from the hardcore florae enthusiasts in the front row. I cant believe this crazy world we live in. Is it beautiful that some of us can put a bunch of dried plants and pods and mic up some cacti and have an audience, clapping and whistling no less at toothpick-plucking cactus spines? There are people in this world that dont see the light of day, stuck in factories to feed their babies, people dying in wars, people fighting for nothing, people living in landfill sights collecting scrap metal......and people plucking cacti w/ toothpicks and getting an audience to clap at the beauty of it all. Crazy. Im not judging, I have no opinion in general cuz art is subjective, but I mean Jesus Christ, mic'd up cacti? What a hilarious world we live in. Im not complaining cuz the red wine was free flowing and red wine has become one of my best friends here in Holland, in the Nether-regions of this world, a land under sea-level, wind blowing, freezing one day, hot and smoggy the next...Today is memorial day for war vets here in Holland. Tomorrow is Liberation Day!
Absolutely not chronological because there is about a month missing here. A month where a lot happened, bliss and sunshine and bridges and scooters and markets....appreciating the colour of fruits and vegetables amongst the chaos of yells in Dutch with Turkish accents about 1 euro banana bunches etc.....Anyways, I need to get this off my chest because I think its hilarious. Art shows with free wine are great but sometimes the free booze is necessary as it was tonight. For me to appreciate the finer points in cacti plucking I did need the four or five plastic glasses of red wine. I walked into a quiet room, dark except for grow lights showering naked orchid plants, hanging from wires with water-test tube things clamped onto them....then a crowd gathered around what? Dripping noise...maybe some sort of green house demonstration? No, three people, gazes focused intensely on a table full of cacti, pine cones, dried leaves and stalks...other 'florae'....The dripping noise I heard was actually a woman intensely plucking a cactus plant that was mic'd up. She was plucking it with a toothpick. Meanwhile the other lady was shaking a dried bean pod and a man was sitting and occasionally stroking a mic'd cactus with a brush. This was supposed to be some sort of contemporary symphony. I was laughing on the inside, but Boaz, the crazy out of control welder from Israel got hammered and was commenting about the "soulful cactus solo" and I couldnt help but let out a laugh which wasnt received well from the hardcore florae enthusiasts in the front row. I cant believe this crazy world we live in. Is it beautiful that some of us can put a bunch of dried plants and pods and mic up some cacti and have an audience, clapping and whistling no less at toothpick-plucking cactus spines? There are people in this world that dont see the light of day, stuck in factories to feed their babies, people dying in wars, people fighting for nothing, people living in landfill sights collecting scrap metal......and people plucking cacti w/ toothpicks and getting an audience to clap at the beauty of it all. Crazy. Im not judging, I have no opinion in general cuz art is subjective, but I mean Jesus Christ, mic'd up cacti? What a hilarious world we live in. Im not complaining cuz the red wine was free flowing and red wine has become one of my best friends here in Holland, in the Nether-regions of this world, a land under sea-level, wind blowing, freezing one day, hot and smoggy the next...Today is memorial day for war vets here in Holland. Tomorrow is Liberation Day!
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