Swifts in Dubrovnik (14th of February 2011)

Stradun, swifts, Dubrovnik

I dreamed Dubrovnik before I saw it for the first time. I am not entirely sure how to explain this. But I am sure that a stone city in nighttime appeared in my dreams with its mysterious streets which lead to its mysterious squares. Those were not pleasant dreams. That city was a stage for some unclear happening, for some worryingly unknown act of dramaturgy in which I was also some sort of actor.

When I think about it, it is not at all clear to me that I as a kid dreamed so weird dreams, but what is particularly interesting about it, and the reason for this post, is that I later found out that the city from my dreams is Dubrovnik. How one can dream about a city in which he has never been before - I do not know, but I do know that I clearly recognized Dubrovnik as the city from my dreams, but not the first time I visited it, it was only on the 21st of June, 2005 when I first descended to it in the nighttime. It could have been around 22:00, 22:30.

swifts, Dubrovnik, houses

Dubrovnik in night is a different Dubrovnik. Then it becomes a bit scary. Yellow light, the walls that get lost in the distance, they are swallowed by the darkness. And swifts. They create a moving, screaming scenery of Dubrovnik in night. With them, that city becomes really a part of dream world. Tense dream world.

I was completely mystified by Dubrovnik in night. It was a happy coincidence that I brought a digital camera with me so that I was able to record my impression (see below).

swifts, Dubrovnik, houses

When I was writing "Problem of the observer", I wrote down my impression of Dubrovnik in the first chapter of the book. To the readers of Construction of Reality >> HERE I offer the first chapter of the "Problem of the observer" (I translated it to English). Dubrovnik that I want to talk about in this post is described there.

Dubrovnik, oranges, night
The sky was yielding a bit of dying light and the rest was coming from the orange bulbs set on the stone house walls a bit above the head height. The cameraman was slowly moving and as he stepped, the dark piece of sky slightly rocked from the left to the right side of the scene in between the passing walls. There must have been many people around and their voices approached and distanced. Two little girls probably from France and their young parents. A dozen of older voices and words that sounded Hebrew.
Dubrovnik, woman, night

I can not really describe such a stone city without the moving images and sound. So, take a look at the video that I recorded on the 21st of June 2005 (below). You will easily note the connection between the >> first chapter of the "Problem of the observer" and this video.

I constructed Dubrovnik in year 2008 to illustrate "Problem of the observer" (the first three images from the beginning of this post). It was quite a demanding construction, and below you can see two test images, one in the night....

house, Dubrovnik, night

... and the other in the daylight.

building, Dubrovnik, day

>> Download the first chapter of the "Problem of the observer".

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