A few months ago (4th June my camera states) I had a few hours to kick around in Dresden between trains from south (Prague) and to west (Frankfurt). So I found myself wandering down the main shopping street or maybe better to say the main mall (outside) that led more or less immediately away from the train station. Dresden these days, unlike 20 years ago when we were last there, is barely distinguishable from the West and all the large corporates have now landed solidly in town.
There’s the corporate transgender mall (an enclosed mall);
The Corporate transgender bookshop
And so on. The signs are not those of tolerance but rather of intolerance as you know that if you’re accused of being anti-transgender, a modern day witch, then you will be bundled into the local corporate sponsored paddy wagon.
But it’s not all dystopian. Right at the end of the mall, the outside one, there was an exhibition of small, mostly pottery, artisans from the local area and occasionally a little farther afield (there were a few Polish ones). In probably the most prominent position in this exhibition or maybe market were some anti-dystopian potters.
A small taste;
Much more of a taste;
Pfizer trained doctor, like doctors before;
And of course climate warriors got a mention as well, this one is 100% climate neutral;
All in all it was a good find for the two hours that I had in Dresden that day.
Is the one with an exhaust pipe a real person.
So far fetched that I can believe it.
Climate Neutral and Klaus eating crickets made my day. Art is possibly the last resistance.