Discovering the Fine Wonders of the Blaschka Father & Son Team and Their Glass Wonder Works.
On one of my many wanderings around Berlin, I entered the area near the CHARITE HOSPITAL in Mitte. Now here is where things get confusing. I have no...
Month: June 2017
The Sandbostel Photos by Sarah Mayr
In April I was invited to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of a POW camp near Hamburg called SANDBOSTEL. I had only recently found out that my father was ...
Heritage Brands in Italy Still Used Day to Day & Bologna Wandering
Whenever I get to a new country I try to go into the supermarket or drug store to find new products. There is something in my mind that says, “This is you...
The Moulage Collections of Berlin Charite
My obsession with wax began at an early age, mostly in the small fetish objects my mother brought with her from WW2 Germany. Old church candles with this ...
The Wax Collections in the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna
I must have been about 4 when I found in my mother’s handbag, a photo of a woman under glass. Along with my German mother’s wooden rosary beads, pink embroidere...