birch bark (detail) Not too
the season to make contact or visit the workshops, everyone is out, there, elsewhere, outside the territory.
The decentration of the Scarpe scheduled was postponed in September due to severe thunderstorms. A little further down in the south, Hautmont, the territory was declared a victim of a "natural disaster". A fireball projected an old man outside his home, which saved him, his house having just afterwards collapsed.
Then I make pictures. Side of Haulchin. Douchy.
And also deals in my studio, the series of books made last February with the College of North Mortagne: the collection of traces, while walking near the Scheldt. Everyone, before leaving, has made its own booklet, quickly, for me it is important: controlling the shape that will receive the background. Do not be dependent. Learn with three large leaves and a piece of string make a book not too bad. A book to fill.
The thing that strikes me, again, is the laborious side of a trace, a trace to live elsewhere in the book where she was born. The hard work of the Presentation at the World scan pages of books, one by one. Retrieve them on another computer. Cleaning. Turn gray around the books. Enhancing images of some contrast or brightness. Crop. Or expand a little breathing image cramped. Name the pictures. Convert them to come online. Put them online. Write a text ... A morning of
Drive to complete a trip for several days of work to process the images of these 40 books ...
The trace, it is almost natural: in the little notebook, two large folded sheets in a notebook, perforated and connected to the Japanese, pencils pose memories, quickly chewed. Their second show, here, implies a time taken, long after the gesture.
World Cup.
I deal with the image.
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