On the forest floor I found this small Rowan (Sorbus accuparia L.). I estimate 15 cm high. At the Ulvenhoutse Bos in Breda, the autumn light felt in on the forest floor in the late evening and reached this young tree. The colours are that of the true palette of autumn and where this time of year stands for: finalise a year of (here first) growth, prepare for winter and get ready for the year to come. Letting the leafs go is crucial for a new start in spring. “How beautiful.
Every day I read a million news articles, I listen to a million talk shows, I watch a million documentairies, I scan a million scientific publications, I receive a million social media messages, I think about a million promises by our leaders, I see a million best pictures, I learn about a million frameworks, methods and models, I see a million pictures of happy people at a million conferences with a million of flowers, certificates, honours and medals, I cry a million tears for them dying from poverty and hunger, I wonder about a million leafs falling again and again and I keep a million hopes alive.
I sit quietly beside Frodo on the floor of the deep forest after Galadriel has left us. I listen to a million echoes around me and just wonder about the world and what to do next.
Through woven woods in Elvenhome
She lightly fled on dancing feet,
And left him lonely still to roam
In the silent forest listening.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.
Picture: Kruf, J.P. (2019) Snow Forest [fine are print]. Breda: Private collection.
This palette of colour and construction finds its base in the combination of government regulation, the use of different materials, the progressive insights in and possibilities for the creation of new infrastructure to ease living.
The personal colour touch of the owner of this house in the centre of the City of Verona makes it almost a work of art. Camouflage in the city.
A bus stop actually can deliver a surprising palette of colours and materials. Here in the city of Breda (my city). Great design: wood, polyester and metal form this unique combination. The light brown, gray and silver palette is clean, neat and organised. It is interacting with the evening light.
The wind can be playful in etching the sand on the beach. A natural pattern emerged here, which by the way, says not a lot about the wind, but also about the sand.
In fact, this is a symbolic picture of how organisations and, on a larger scale, even cities can be (trans)formed, sculpted, moulded, and even created by this combination of external and environmental factors on one hand and its own internal strengths and weaknesses (in the palette of behaviour, grip, power, robustness, resilience and diversity) of itself on the other hand.
Here, the emerging pattern has become the natural result of a sand and wind carried out realisation after the SWOT analysis. The result is what was possible. The wind and the sand come to their own expressions. No human or Artificial Intelligence is needed for true art expressions of Mother Nature.
Kruf Huyssons 