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A step-by-step guide to the six days it took to create the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

10 February 2025 ~ Ponart Brewery Creation of the World Exhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holiness, theological doctrines and a biblical view of the world, these are some of the many spiritual components of our mortal existence with which, I imagine, I am rarely associated. I can think of hardly anybody among those few who think they know me, and that includes myself, who would even half believe that I would take an active interest in the genesis creation narrative. And yet, there I was ~ where, I shall tell you in good time ~ not merely taking an interest in, but following in the footsteps of, the Divine Creator\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first question that was put to us was, \u201cHow long did it take God to create the world?\u201d Where my wife got three days from, I have no idea. Her god must have been on piecework. My answer, after rummaging hastily through my Church of England primary education archives, \u201cseven days\u201d, was nearer to the mark, but our guide, a Lutheran priest, corrected me, just as I remembered what I have always considered to be a nitpicking distinction, claiming that the world was made in six days and on the seventh, the Good Lord rested.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This genesis paradigm has been used to explain why we go to, or in England used to go to, church on Sundays and why on that same day, before the evil ones changed the licensing laws, the pubs worked fewer hours, so that we, the people who used the pubs, would stay at home and rest in order to work greater hours in the restless week to come. Is nothing sacred to exploitation? The answer to that is no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had not been asked such searching biblical questions since I was a nipper, and, as far as I can recall, had never been asked them whilst standing in front of a giant globe of the world, lit up and suspended within a hushed and semi-darkened room, bathed in a red-filtered light, with a Lutheran priest standing before me dressed in a pair of jeans surrounded by a semi-circle of orange-painted rocking horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something for the weekend, Sir? <\/strong>
Victor Ryabinin Art Exhibition retrospective 2021<\/a>
Where Art Meets Interior Design<\/a>
Telegraph Art Restaurant, Svetlogorsk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this was not enough to persuade me that I had wandered onto the TV film set of the cult 1960s\u2019 series The Prisoner<\/em>, then the presence of a dinosaur\u2019s skeleton poised at the side of the globe primordially grinning extinction at me brought me back to earth with a surrealistic jolt.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ponart<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In telling you that the cavernous, scarred, hollowed out, red-brick room in which myself, my wife, the priest, the globe and the dinosaur were congregated was one piece in the mammoth jigsaw of K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s Pomart Brewery, a rambling late-19th<\/sup> century pile undergoing restoration and emerging from its ruined condition as a multifarious public space, those who think they know me, and this includes myself, will pick up on the one word \u2018brewery\u2019 and whisper slyly under their breath, \u2018Hmm, so that\u2019s why he was there!” But both of us could not be more wrong. Though it shames me to admit it, I was not strictly or exclusively at Pomart’s for the beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mick<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not that I have not been aware of the Pomart Brewery\u2019s existence; could I of all people be guilty of this oversight? I have known it as a historic landmark fallen into dereliction and, in more recent months, as an ambitious restoration project, complete with functioning brewery. The fact, therefore, that I have not had time to explore it in either its faded former or current glory testifies to the many things that there are to see and do in and around Kaliningrad. But here we were, or rather there we were, at last, attending an exhibition called Creation<\/em>, a deceptively simple title for something of such conceptual and spatial magnitude. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • \"Creation<\/li>
  • \"Ponart<\/li>
  • \"Globe<\/li>
  • \"Giant<\/li><\/ul><\/div>