Cities of the Dead: Chris

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Tell Tchaikovsky the news.

(Guest post from Chris Sumner.)

On my 1995 trip to East Central Europe I hooked up with some fellow Canadians in Vienna. One was a classical music enthusiast. I tagged along with them on an excursion to a graveyard outside of Vienna where many notable Austrians (and some Germans) of the 19th century were buried. I assume that he brought a map with him or one was provided at the entrance.

- Chris

Where art meets the landscape

Graveyards of all shapes and sizes have drawn me to them for many years. Often they are places of reflection, after all you're walking through a place where people have been put to rest (as they say) and they have a kind of morbid beauty manifested in the sculptures and stonework which abide there. They are often quiet places, removed from the busy haunts and paths of the living. Cemeteries are human spaces where stone marks past lives and yet that stone too, symbol of permanence, decays over time.

Colin