the mug © Lilly Schwartz

On Monday I went out for a bit of shopping in the mall at Schönhauser Allee. There is an S-Bahn that goes right there in only 10 minutes and I thought it would be a good idea to take pictures on the way. So, instead of gritty subway pictures today it’s a picture of a train station of the Ring Bahn. What I found interesting about this picture it not only that it gives you an insight into what a typical S-Bahn station looks around here, but that there is a detail that I spotted right away, but might not get noticed if you just have a quick look at the picture. It’s the mug sitting on the metal bar above the whole scene. Some street art is in impossible spots on houses and you wonder how they got there. This mug is similar. I can’t see how anyone could have reached up there and throwing the mug to get stuck between the spikes in such a natural position seems impossible too. I wonder how long it has been sitting there and how long it will stay up there. After all they would have to pay someone to climb up there and retrieve it. It might be there forever …