From a strange planet - 35

I've been taking walks around the camera locations. I've seen many nice places and I hope you like them too. This time I omit long descriptions. I just post the pictures. They're nice enough without words. Enjoy!

E6 Vensvangen - Google streetview

Several views of the "two eyed" house. Otherwise, nothing much happens here.

Rv. 2 Sorma - Google streetview

The stream goes under the railway. There's an old culvert I would like to explore.

A house in the woods. I dream about living there.

A nice monument along the road. I dream about sitting there in the autumn sunlight. I could not find any more information or pictures. It's not visible on the map. 

Rv. 3 Rena - Google Streetview

A wintry bus shelter.

With nice far views over the water.

Abandoned industries.

And rustic houses in the woods.

Fv. 221 Valdalsfjell - Google Streetview

Summer and winter trees. Martian hills.

Summer and winter houses.

From a strange planet - 34

 Fv. 115 Hemnes - Google maps - The webcam shows a harmonious hilly landscape. There's a pleasant horizon. The woods suggest dark narrow paths and meditative clearings. Easy walks with classic books in the backpack. German romantics. Nordic walking. On some days impressive clouds form in the sky. Quietly the grain grows in the fields.

There's a small house that's also a bus shelter. - See Thomas Ligotti. - I never saw a person waiting there. Nor did I see a parked bicycle.

There's a whiteness in the distance. A line of pixels. A conceptual artwork made by farmers. See Christo. I will sell it by NFT.

Houses shine at night. Like always. - See Igor savchenko. 4-94-22, The road to the distant forest, where a small light was twinkling from time to time last night. Look here.

At night the roadsign looks like Hallucigenia. By day it's just Fv. 115.

Fv. 169 Åserud - Google maps - Impressive emptiness throughout the year. In winter the woods are transparent and vertical. In summer they are solid and spherical. No one comes here. But then, suddenly, a square appeared on the asphalt. A new artwork by Jeroen Jongeleen .

Fv. 172 Holter - Google maps - An empty road. There is something behind the trees, but we don't know what. By day we see vague shapes. By night we sea a vague glow. There is something but it doesn't want to talk. It wants to keep its distance.

Rv. 2 Føttaskjæret - Google maps - There's a sign. And a crossroads. Go left and there's a house behind trees. Go right and there are empty woods. Very empty woods. I checked.

Fv. 24 Storsjøen - Google maps - The boat is always there when I look. There's a mountain on the other side of the lake. You could take the boat to get there. Could you walk over the ice in winter?

Fv. 181 Finsbråtan - Google maps - The snow is melting. Houses are hidden in the woods. They listen to space signals. At night they watch the satellites.

Fv. 33 Feiring - Google maps - The house is almost hidden. It looms. It attracts ghosts of autumn.

Dash cam landscapes - 2

I was surprised when I discovered the dashboard camera pictures. I could not believe that these fleeting moments were recorded. I could not believe that these moments of tragedy had been fixed and then shared in public.

It is terrifying that I will never know the aftermath of these accidents. I don't know if they were deadly, if people were wounded or if they just caused material damage. We see the moving life before and a still life after. We are shocked by the difference.

This can happen to all of us. It need not be a car accident, it can be any act of fate. We see speed and then we see the end of speed. We see the tumbling, we see the rolling, we see how it comes to rest and then we see the sky. Do we look through living or through dead eyes? Is this the final picture or just a cliffhanger? Why don't we see big letters spelling out: "T H E   E N D" ?

We see a normal situation. Was this normal situation restored or was it been destroyed forever?

We look at a road, somewhere far away, somewhere nowhere. We see the dry giant hogweed and then we see the stalks being mowed down.

Normally we would not care about this place, but now it is special. The place is transformed by spectacle. Would it be worth to come here and investigate? To sit in silence and awe.

Impossible to tell, but in the meantime we can admire the poetry of the situation like a surrealist painting. We stare, think and puzzle.

There is that one tree. It is worth looking at. 

It is like a modern artwork. (Wolfgang Tillmans, Lighter 33, 2007)

The road runs through the landscape and there are strange objects along the route. (SoiL Thornton, So Warm Out, That's A Lot Of Sea Weed Chips, 2014)

Phillips | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale: London Auction 16 April 2021