Noreen's Journal

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church: A Memory of War and Destruction Romanesque Style Architecture Plate1: Captured by Author At first sight, it gave me grandeur or splendour picture with the feeling of roar, like it was thundering and screaming and its scream blending with the blustery cold wind, making it a more mammoth edifice. It gives the feeling that it has many hidden stories full of sorrow, violence, and destruction but at the same time, it narrates the time of its zenith. The structure gives a message to every visitor that no matter how much power you have, yet, you must have to experience woes. The historical structure stands in one of the famous avenues of Berlin, Kurfurstendamm. hashtag

There is a Roof of Wisdom on my house porch🏡. It is a beautiful plaster decoration carved with some symbolic features.   When someone enters my house porch, no one realizes its uniqueness, well, how a layperson has inquiry eyes 👀. But when I make aware them of it, they become shocked and appreciate it. The plaster decoration in my house porch is placed in the middle of the interior roof and has maroon color on it. It has carved designs and by focusing, one can realize that it has an image of a bird and fish beautifully composed with each other. It is in a round shape and gives a picture of the shining sun, a symbol of wisdom. Some other viewers called it a flower shape, a symbol of purity.  But at first sight, it feels like a mandala or rangoli, and also sometimes it gives me a picture of the  Wheel of Law (Dharmachakra) design, an important symbol in Buddhism. It is common to have decoration on porch interior roofs in Pakistani houses but the plaster decoration on my h...

An Insightful Mosiac Wall of My House and its Depiction in Ancient Art In my house, there is a phenomenally mythical wall. It is decorated with mosaic art by inlaying carved pieces of mirror and colored glasses. It portrays a hunting scene, in which a tiger is attacking a gazelle (bystanders call it a Deer) near a tropical palm tree. There are three flying ducks and three deep mountains resting in the background. There is bloodshed in the scene but it does not give a feeling of brutality. The whole scene is framed in a chain of geometrical patterns. Living in a modern society, this mosaic is just a decorative wall for every guest who comes to my house. But having a background in Art History, I can realize its symbolic representation. The wall is placed in the sitting hall. And whenever I sit there, it bugs me to write about it. I took an image of a fresco painting from Google as a reference to indicate the relationship between the mosaic wall of my house and ancient imagery.  Gener...