Comments on: Marrakech 1: Doors http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876 Iconography Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:48:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Michiel van Raaij http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876#comment-30612 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:36:54 +0000 http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876#comment-30612 Raymond and Christopher, thank so much for your comments! The visit to Marrakech was spontaneous idea. I think it is a good thing to challenge yourself. Aside from learning about Moroccan cities, the trip also helped me to (at least partly) understand the roots of the Moroccan community in the Netherlands and the cultural divide they must experience with their family in Morocco. The comparison with Calvino is a good one. Marrakech is like that. There is a wall, so you can really enter the city. And the foodstalls give Marrakech a very particular sent. Unforgettable experience. I agree with you, Christopher, that the comparison with a slum is not the best one. I do not know how to describe it otherwise. It really is a labyrinth. Raymond and Christopher, thank so much for your comments! The visit to Marrakech was spontaneous idea. I think it is a good thing to challenge yourself.

Aside from learning about Moroccan cities, the trip also helped me to (at least partly) understand the roots of the Moroccan community in the Netherlands and the cultural divide they must experience with their family in Morocco.

The comparison with Calvino is a good one. Marrakech is like that. There is a wall, so you can really enter the city. And the foodstalls give Marrakech a very particular sent. Unforgettable experience.

I agree with you, Christopher, that the comparison with a slum is not the best one. I do not know how to describe it otherwise. It really is a labyrinth.

]]> by: Christopher Perrodin http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876#comment-29918 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:34:57 +0000 http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876#comment-29918 Hearing you describe Marrakech reminded me a lot of "Invisible Cities" by Calvino. It sounds poetical. I don't know if the nature of the street and that of slums in Western cities could be drawn together well. It seems as though slums would be even less public, less inviting than they are now, especially since we don't have a public market street established in our culture. And perhaps a parallel can be made between the nature of the facade and of the family life--interior orientated? Hearing you describe Marrakech reminded me a lot of “Invisible Cities” by Calvino. It sounds poetical.
I don’t know if the nature of the street and that of slums in Western cities could be drawn together well. It seems as though slums would be even less public, less inviting than they are now, especially since we don’t have a public market street established in our culture.

And perhaps a parallel can be made between the nature of the facade and of the family life–interior orientated?

]]> by: Raymond Willems http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876#comment-29852 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:13:15 +0000 http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2876#comment-29852 Beautiful Story! For me, Merakesh sound great. I love to discover places by just walking around for what's coming next. So maybe you have to be spontaneous for those cities to visit?! Have a good time! Sincerely, Raymond Beautiful Story!

For me, Merakesh sound great. I love to discover places by just walking around for what’s coming next.

So maybe you have to be spontaneous for those cities to visit?!

Have a good time!
Sincerely,
Raymond

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