Living the past

What I love about old buildings is the past that they have.

A past before us,

And the fact that we can use the building again

   in a different way, or

   in the same way.

A past of people walking around in the building

   just like we walk in it.

Or hard working people,

   we can only imagine when we close our eyes.

But the mystical thing about old buildings are the doors and windows.

It are the same window and same door.

We walk through them,

they walked through them

We look through them and see the surrounding,

they looked through them and saw the surrounding,

The difference is the surrounding.

We can only imagine what they saw

and what they were feeling.

This is what I like about old buildings to feel the past

of life that was in the building,

being there were someone else was.

These photos are made by me in 2007 in the Sphinx fabric in Maastricht.