has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Meoto Iwa, or the Loved one-and-loved one Rocks, are a couple of small rocky stacks in the sea off Futami, Mie, Japan. They are joined by a shimenawa (a heavy rope of rice straw) and are considered sacred by worshippers at the neighbouring Futami Okitama Shrine (Futami Okitama Jinja. According to Shinto, the rocks represent the union of the creator of kami, Izanagi and Izanami. The rocks, therefore, celebrate the union in marriage of man and woman. The rope, which weighs over a ton, must be replaced several times a year in a special ceremony. The larger rock, said to be male, has a small torii at its peak. (Wikipedia)
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The Great Beech stood for nearly two centuries. Carved into its ancient trunk and branches were the countless messages left by generation after generation. Those words are now lost forever and all but forgotten aside from just a very few. In 1999 the Giant was struck by a catastrophic lightning bolt resulting in an instant conflagration, a funeral pyre, whose devouring incandescence was visible from the seven hills which surround Providence. Nothing lasts for long.
Dennis James Laux, 2015
