dialects of grey*
behind the blueish/green scaffolding screen an exchange unfolds within a variation on a theme
the stucco facade RAL 7047 (telegrau 4) the window-frames Mahoni wood stained 7101 (clear) the interior doorframe, shop RAL 7045 (telegrau 2) the interior doors, shop RAL 7047 (telegrau 4) ceilings and interior walls RAL 9003 (signalweiß) the interior doors and frames, apartment RAL 9010 (reinweiß)
this trade house will sustain as two separate entities *the title is borrowed from the Swedish poet and 2011 Nobel Prize Winner Tomas Transströmer, who writes in his poem ‘The open window’; Flew low over the summer So many things I liked, have they any weight? Dozens of dialects of green And especially the red of the wooden house walls.
source: the great enigma, Tomas Transströmer, New Directions Book, New York, 2006 |