ZEEGLAS- first batch

Nostalgia: fore and aft

Now we have two nostalgias, the first characterized by escapism from reality and the second by dynamism for the present and principally for the future, waiting for action and decisiveness, in expectation and suspense for someone or something. The first relates to memory, the slightly sad, an unrealized desire, the imagination, etc.. The new nostalgia — with a new content, ontological content — does not like the escapism “to the past” and dislikes the memory’s “going back”... It looks fixedly at life and has eschatological content and perspective. Finally, the second has the same positive content as the etymological one : it has a direct and synonymous relation to “hope” and “expectation”. This nostalgia is for everybody and for peoples and especially for the young...

After this little essay, it is very clear that nostalgia concerns life itself, mankind and especially the young, because it gives to them an orientation and a direction in time, many perspectives and posibilities for action, an expectation for the future... Finally, this nostalgia can succeed in reviving the flat and flagging visions of every human person and humanity. In other words, eschatological nostalgia is proper for the existential perspective of humanity...

Prof. Hdr. Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas,
Dean of the St Platon Theological Seminar in Tallinn.

http://www.orthodoxa.org/GB/orthodoxy/theology/eschatologicalNostalgia.htm

Zeeglas Machine: 17 May 2011-GLASS!!!

Zeeglas Machine: Build up- 16 May 2011 with Lorenzo and Carl

With gratitude and respect to Lorenzo and Carl.

Zeeglas Machine: 16 May 2011 First run(smooth, but without glass)

It comes at last with peace and exhilaration. The moment of first sight is filled with power and calm. I find the warmth in my center pushing up through my body and curling the corners of my mouth. My eyes getting wider. My fingers tingling. My heart racing. Steady.

Bustin' With Lyske

Lyske's Fated Arrangement:


The Good Stuff:


The Aftermath:


Battle Wounds L:


Battle Wounds M:

bits

I'll start this one with an image for Italo.

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is in itself a deeply nostalgic book.


Four


Three


Two


One


or One

here's a nice view with the location of the coming Zeeglas machine in the background.



Yesterday's walk through the village of Enkhuizen in search of a grocery store and a basic understanding of my greater surroundings.




Progress on the machine...well already almost a week old, but here's the main wheel and the beautiful 270mm sprocket.


The early morning view out into my "backyard".


And finally the developing installation in my front window, future Zeeglas.