Topology | Claiming Space
Ein Photo aus Berlin: Essays 1991 ? 1994 (A photograph from Berlin: Essays 1991 ? 1994)
Laszlo F. F?ldenyi
At the border between past and future
It used to be that a man could claim as much property as he could walk around in a day. It was his land, measured on his body. His steps marked the boundary, the sweat of his brow soaked the soil, and in the air, which hung over him like a bell, he continued to hear his increasingly rapid breaths of that day many years hence. The closer dusk came, the faster he walked. By nightfall he had to be back where he started. If he didn’t, it meant he had lost his sense of proportion, and with it his right to the land. It is no wonder that his body formed an intimate unity with the land. If the one was damaged, the other knew. They were body and soul together...
L?szl? F. F?ld?nyi, “An der Grenze zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft,” in Ein Foto aus Berlin: Essays 1991 - 1994 (Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 1996), 71
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