the new photo friday theme: Slick. leaving me without idea at first. which was good. as it made me go and browse my photo files to find something slick there. that's how i arrived in Paris again, at the metro station Concorde. i remember the surprise of back then, to see the walls of that station: endless rows of tiles with letters. i tried to figure their meaning out: a modern word art installation? a word riddle, metro-station size?
now i asked wiki, and the answer is: "Concorde is distinctive due to its décor; the tunnel for line 12 is decorated with tiles spelling the The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen), a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal." (link)
some more finds: the metro station dates back to 1900. and: Ezra Pound's famous Imagist poem, In a Station of the Metro, was inspired by this station:
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd ;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
- Ezra Pound
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(more moments of Paris, here: life as a journey/Paris)
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