We spent February of this year in Berlin. We rented a flat in an old unrenovated apartment building on Planckstrasse in what was East Berlin. We were two blocks from the Friedrichstrasse Train Station. Next to it was the Traenenpalast, or Palace of Tears, where West Berliners visiting relatives in East Berlin used to gather to return home. On our first day in town we went to see what progress had been made on the demolition of the Palace of the Republic. I wanted to photograph it before it was completely torn down. We then crossed into the park known as the Marx-Engels Forum, where there is perhaps the most effective public sculpture ever put up by the GDR (in Geman DDR). We often went walking at night through the city, when city lights made somewhat ominous Berlin’s old classical-style buildings.

Last month Sean, Stephanie, Rupert, and I parked at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and walked out to Land’s End. We found a labyrinth there. We also wanted to visit Cliff House, and we found a giant camera obscura there.

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