Monday Morning

Liège, quai de Maestricht by Gerard Michel

[pen and watercolors]

Horizontality.

The possibility of order and beauty.

Brick and stone and cement walls, roofs, chimneys, windows, doors.

Each properly stacked next to the other. Each leaning on the other for safety.

Verticality achieved/attained.

Fine lines filled with [my favorites] muted browns, blues, greys.

Except for the rust red door.

Perhaps for entering all of it.

And then there is the [seemingly] stand alone edifice on the right.

A brave abode, one might say.

[abode: ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [act of waiting] ): verbal noun from abide .]

Excerpt from Liège, quai de Maestricht by Gerard Michel