stelae

 Tempelhof airport is within the Berlin city borders, and it is no longer functional as an airport. The space is now being used as a nature preserve and the vast concrete runways for all and every purpose that you may think of. There are bicycle racers and sunbathers, also skateboarders and families grilling their food and people flying kites. The airfield is so large that all of these activities may happen side by side.

The sculpture as a memorial for the murdered jews is madly impressive, it is a large field with many hundreds  of concrete stelae, they are all smooth concrete, and each has its own individual measurements. Not all are simply straight. It is a most impressive sculpture. It is hard to convey the impression of size on a photograph.It conveys a magnificent sense of great mass and desolation. People who wander into this field of stelae are instantly reduced to insignificance.

There is so much offered in a big city, a city where the market never stops.

Electric bicycles are strange, the ones on rent are more electric than pedal powered. They are fast, and require no effort to keep them moving. The first bicycle had flat tyres, the second ran out of power at the disused airport, the third one was missing a pedal, and the fourth one appeared to be in order.

Technology is difficult.