GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

"I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply." Tamara de Lempicka (born Maria Gorska, born c.1898 Warsaw,  Poland or Moscow, Russia -  Died March 18, 1980, Cuernavaca, Mexico). Viena, Retti candle shop by Hans Hollien (1964-65). Study for Holiday (1969-1970) by Jeffrey Smart (1921-2013, Australia-Italy).  Viena, Retti candle shop by Hans Hollien (1964-65). The Olivetti shop in Venice, Italy by Carlo Scarpa. Guillermo Aranda-Mena©️2020  

Designed by Mies Van Der Rohe for the Barcelona World Expo held 1929. Interpretation by Guillermo Aranda-Mena - 90 years later. 90+ years later the Barcelona Chair can be seen in nearly every other corporate foyer. This photo was taken in Bilbao while visiting Tecnalia R&D in 2017. Guillermo Aranda-Mena©

A bunch of starkly juxtaposed images is my blgpost this month. The photographic sequencing highlights contrasting experiences of two locations which I visited at the start of 2013. Berlin's concrete jungle siting next to a camp named Tannalp at the hart of the Swiss alps. Looking at my photos some antonyms that come to my mind in no particular order are: open-close, concrete-snow, wihte-grey, in-out, soft-sharp, nature-man, going down-going up, fresh-old, flat-round, sharp-smooth, to roll-to slide, detach-enclose, afloat-sunken, urban-rural, dry-damp, sublime-mundane, reflect-absorb, bounce-trap, fishing-hunting, organic-cubic, timber-concrete, stone-glass, machine-manual, quiet-loud, clifft-wall, climb-slide, shadow-reflection, bird-plane... landscape-buildscape!   ... and so on and so forth....  a constant across all shots is of course,  "a cold-winter"! best, Guillermo ...