HELMUT DICK

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Psychobotanical

Neophyte Shrine - Conyza canadensis

In Germany Conyza canadensis, the Canadian Horseweed, became extremely noticeable in the rubble fields of the Second World War. It was one of the most common species growing in the destroyed city of Stuttgart. It was also one of the few plants that had no, or little problems with the contaminated rubble, among others – the phosphor of the incendiary bombs...

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The building knows

The Blinking

An accident seems to have taken place at the Wierdensestraat 2 in Almelo. A car is crashed in the front facade of the former Ledeboer Bank building. The potential driver is absent even though the hazard lights of the damaged vehicle are on. Yet not only the car is blinking...

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Naive notions of death

Rowing in the Ceiling of Modernity

Two skeletons in a rowing boat paddle in the standard ceiling of an abandoned modern office block...

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Via the animal

To shit on human arrogance

In many religions and legends birds play a special role as flying messenger and mediator between unreachable (spiritual) worlds and the earthbound humans. To shit on human arrogance is referring to these tales but also puts it in a contemporary context...

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Higher Forces

The Jesus Construction Site / Die Jesusbaustelle

At first glance this appears to be an ordinary construction site, but taking a closer look, examining Mary's gaze and the cluster of Jesus figures on the ground, this explanation becomes clearly insufficient. The discovered situation appears perplexing and mysterious, existing somewhere between a miscalculated restoration attempt and a biblical miracle of sorts.

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