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To Dust// Chasmal Fires
It’s Release day! Trisagion is out: https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/album/trisagion
Today I’ll share this piece, the second of three I created for Ethereal Shroud’s new album Trisagion.
This one was also a part of “The Lost Years” ink series, still on-going, and like the other was created with some general direction from the band, and after hearing an early demo.
The First song off the album it’s bold aggressive and dealing with the all consuming-fires of hatred. It’s both the first demo I heard while working on these, and the longest track on the album at a whopping 27 minutes.
As stated above, the album was released today, and you can hear and purchase it here: https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/album/trisagion
For me this piece was about despair, and horror with the world around us continuing to drift in the wrong direction - something that still seems to happen faster every day. There’s a lot of fury and anguish in the song, and yet passages of hope weave in and out. A monument to folly seemed like the best piece to accompany the song - a dread idol we hope to see crumble away.
To Dust
VIII
+THE LOST YEARS+
Ink on Paper
9” x 12”
2021
~Age
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Prototype
ICC Berlin · Schüler & Witte
A kind of spaceship lay down to the westend side of Berlin. This is the International Congress Center Berlin (abbreviated ICC Berlin) it was designed by Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte and build in the 70s.
They won the competition for the construction of a multifunctional hall in 1965, after several changes on specification, began its construction period between 1965 to 1979.
ICC Berlin is one of the most important buildings of the post-war period, and probably the most expensive building in West Berlin. 40 years since then the actual owners (the state of Berlin, operator Messe Berlin GmbH) consider this building “technically worn”. In April 2014 it was closed in order to remove asbestos contamination, but now it remains closed.
It was one of the largest convention centers in the world. Indeed, the 313-meter-long, 89-meter-wide and almost 40-meter-high support this statement. ICC Berlin is a very unique and special building.
State of Berlin, DOCOMOMO Germany and DOCOMOMO International please, consider to give ICC Berlin other uses. As a multifunctional building it has been demostrated ICC Berlin could handle other uses, don’t let this building remains abandoned.
If you are in Berlin or you have planned to travel there, try to visit at least its exteriors.

Wikipedia friends tell us the actual state of this building, thanks to them:
..For years, the future of the building has been discussed in Berlin.
Messe Berlin has no interest in continuing operation as the operating costs exceed the income from events. Even a demolition was brought into conversation, this is rejected by large parts of Berlin’s policy, however. The last public event in the building was on March 9, 2014, and after the Daimler Annual General Meeting on April 9, 2014, it was closed. So far, it is unclear whether and when the ICC will be rehabilitated and who bears the costs. Sustainable concepts for further use after a renovation are not yet available.
In the wake of the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015, the ICC has been used since December 2015 as emergency shelter for initially more than 500 residents. In June 2017, about 260 people still lived there. From May 2016 to June 2017, the building was also used as one of Berlin’s first port of call for refugees. Up to 1,400 asylum seekers were processed daily here…
images:
1- Instructional plan. Drawing Illustration by Robinson. Domus v.557
2-7-8 arquigraph
3-5-6 aerial view. wikipedia
4- facade detail. alexander stumm
5- ICC Berlin Illustration by Robinson,1978
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