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The photograph on the cover, awalkaday 251-2022, was taken and published online prior to the installation of a sculpture on the same site inside a public park in Namur (Wallonia, Belgium).
This black-and-white photo captured a fleeting moment in time before a renowned sculpture was moved to its current and permanent location. It immortalized a romantic outdoor scene : a lovely couple sitting on the grass in the shade of a glowing tree.
Sculpted in bronze by Belgian artist Nat Neujean, The Daughters of Water (1951) depicts two intertwined nymphs, symbolizing two European rivers : the Meuse and the Sambre. These colorful photographs of the sculpture were taken on May 8, 2024, a day that commemorates the second war-ending victory of democracy over fascist ideologies across Europe in the mid-20th century.
awalkaday 251-2022 and The Daughters of Water both have their roots in a 19th century park named after the first Queen of the Belgians, Louise-Marie. Note the uncanny resemblance between the bronze sculpture of a pair of nymphs (below) and the photo of a romantic couple of humans (above), all in the shade of the same slow-aging tree.
Four ENS domains, owned by daqhris.eth and named after Belgian towns and rivers, have been decorated with awalkaday photographs. The local landscape was mapped and displayed on an Ethereum blockchain naming protocol to celebrate a rare week of international conferences in Belgium: EthCC [7] & ETHGlobal Brussels in the summer of 2024.
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