EARTH DAY 2017: Offering Earth a tree with many branches and twigs
A few thoughts from some human members of its family Leaves of grass, as they were once called…. Stalks sprouting from a common bulb of artistic imaginings The act of looking at these fragile and...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2017: DAY 1 L’Homme et la Nature (1/3) Shakespeare, la tempête et...
« Vents, soufflez à crever vos joues, vents, faites rage! Et vous, tornades et cataractes, jaillissez Jusqu’à noyer nos clochers et leurs coqs! Feux sulfureux, plus prompts que la pensée,...
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“THE WOOD WIDE WEB”…WHISPERING TREES “What both teams discovered was nothing less than a vast underground netwook … in which fungi connect trees of different species by passing chemical and electrical...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2017: DAY 3 L’Homme et la Nature (2/3): E. A. Poe, la moisissure et...
« I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity– an atmosphere which had...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2017: DAY 4
COLLIDING WITH PHYSICAL REALITY “At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality” Al Gore, commenting on his book The Assault of Reason and the current media ecology in a recent interview...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2017: DAY 5 L’Homme et la Nature (3/3): C.D. Friedrich, J.M.W....
La peinture de Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) a ceci en commun avec celle de J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) qu’elle nous place devant l’immensité omniprésente du cosmos, devant lequel l’humain s’efface,...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2017: DAY 6
WHEN YOU LEAVE A LEAF IN WATER “And we’d sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October … Where...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2017: DAY 7
OF APPLES CRUSHING BLACKBERRIES…“COMME APPLE ECRASE BLACKBERRY”… “Nos jours roulent sur ces rails. On y multiplie les moyens, mais, comme on ne sait plus la finalité de tout ca, ces moyens deviennent...
View ArticleAVIGNON: PROPOSITION D’UNE PORTE A TROIS BATTANTS–OU VOLETS, C’EST SELON
AVIGNON : PROPOSITION D’UNE PORTE A TROIS BATTANTS –OU VOLETS, C’EST SELON Un festival en trois pièces, avec un interlude Depuis l’Hôtel d’Angleterre vers le Centre et Shakespeare, Par l’Horloge vers...
View ArticleBLADE RUNNER 2049
BLADE RUNNER 2049 The movie is, first and foremost, a visual experience. Emblematic urban landscape and pouring rain. A significant conjuring up of the first movie screen experience. The visuals are...
View ArticleKeyboard Matters
If you thought that the Internet played a role in politics, think again. The ongoing drama of the American presidential campaign shows that what we think of when we think “Internet and Politics” is...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 1: EARTH LANDSCAPE
TAKING A WALK THROUGH DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES DAY 1 “The planet: We just live on it” David Attenborough Round shaped From above and from beyond. Flat to our feet With gaps, and ups, and downs. A life of...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 2: PAYSAGES DE SONS
VOYAGE A TRAVERS LES PAYSAGES JOUR 2 « Un matin de la fin du mois de mars 2007, au lever du soleil, j’effectuais des enregistrements le long de la frontière sud du parc provincial Algonquin, à environ...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 3: AIR LANDSCAPE
TAKING A WALK THROUGH DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES DAY 3 For H.P. Lovecraft, the weird conveys « a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 4: PAYSAGES DE LANGUES
VOYAGE A TRAVERS LES PAYSAGES JOUR 4 « In the new order, there was not so much space left for the Guugu Yimithirr. The farmers resented their burning of grass and chasing the cattle away from the...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 5: VEGETAL LANDSCAPE
TAKING A WALK THROUGH DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES DAY 5 Andrew Motion reviewing Andy Goldsworthy’s works in a piece titled “The Pencil of Nature” (The New York Review of Books Feb. 8, 2018, p. 17-18): “They...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 6: PAYSAGES INVISIBLES
« Lorsque les dieux faisaient l’homme, ils étaient de corvée et besognaient: considérable était leur besogne, leur corvée lourde, infini leur labeur. Car les grands Anunnaku aux Igigu, imposaient une...
View ArticleEARTH DAY 2018 7: WATER LANDSCAPE
TAKING A WALK THROUGH DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES DAY 7 From Louise Erdrich’s novel Future Home of the Living God: “The deep orange-gold of the sun is pure nostalgia. An antique radiance already sheds itself...
View ArticleTHE SHORT STORY: A DOUBLE BILL/REGARDS CROISÉS SUR LA NOUVELLE
THE SHORT STORY : A DOUBLE BILL/ REGARDS CROISÉS SUR LA NOUVELLE Two collections of short stories : Teasing generic conventions, Conjuring the artistic worlds of painting and cinema into their...
View ArticleEarth Day 2019 – Frontières
C’est à la limite où disparaissent les arbres. Quand on s’est suffisamment élevé sur les sentiers rocailleux, sous le soleil, à l’ombre des sapins, chênes, aulnes ou autre espèce, selon le lieu, selon...
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