Saying nothing
Showing something
Trying the Empty Nothing, and
demanding something;
Banging the Silent Zero, in search
of sound
Chronicle the experience
of a contemplative existence;
people, places
intertwined with
sounds of silence
Dresden
Dresden Old Station, Germany - 19 June 2004
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
During the final months of World War II Dresden became a safe haven to some 600,000 refugees, including women, children, and wounded soldiers with a total population of 1.2 million. Dresden was attacked seven times between 1944 and 1945, and was completely captured by the Red Army after German capitulation.
The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the the United States Army Air Force between 13 February and 15 February 1945, remains one of the more controversial Allied actions of the Western European theatre of war. The inhabited inner city of Dresden was largely destroyed.
Some of the Allies described the operation as the justified bombing of a military and industrial target. Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to distance himself from the attack, even though he was heavily involved with the organization and planning of the raid. Several researchers have argued that the February attacks were disproportional.
American novelist Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the raid as a POW; his novel Slaughterhouse-Five is based on that experience.
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Some snow on the Mountains
And looking up I saw the quiet mountains ... Anguish, and pain, and hosts of fearful specters left me at once, and with a cry exultant and a heart fulfilled of only nature's comfort, I took once more the path that climbed above me
Du Toit's Kloof, Worcester - 16 July 2009
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