Dark-ness

Door, Sommelsdijk, Zeeland, June 22, 2009

Two weeks ago I returned to the lovely village Sommelsdijk, to finish my series for the Woningbouw Vereniging's newest buildings. Social housing but with flair. They ordered a series on canvas, and want to add summer pics, to the winter ones I did half a year ago.

I like going back to places, see what's changed, or what's not. Like the demolition in Breda-Noord, I am definately gonna go back there in autumn, when the building starts. It's like the Peelland College in Deurne, my old secondary school. They moved from an old building after 40 years (!) to a brand new one, and I took photos of Traces Of Silence just before they started a new semester in December 2005. Now my old school is turned into the Alfrink College, also leaving an old, worn out building empty in Deurne, the Netherlands. (next book! :)

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Now I only want the sun to come back, as it's summer here, but a rainy week s far. Last weeks were gordeous, and hopefully I can do some more 'bright blue sky' photos next week again :) Love, M

Zeeland was white...

On my way to Sommelsdijk I just had to take some photos with my phone while driving. I just like Zeeland very much, the wide views and the emptyness...such a beautiful part of Holland :)

Zeeland (sort of state, we call it 'provincie') is very flat and lays in the South-West of the Netherlands and was once almost completely flooded 1 February 1953, due to extreme high tide and a severe storm. We call it the watersnoodramp there were 1836 deaths in the Netherlands, 18 in Vlaanderen (Belgium), 307 in UK and 224 at sea. (source: Wikipedia NL)