Departure : snowing in Wuhan, taxi, airport, wait, impatience to be there, tired of the dullness of this city, of this grey constantly surrounding us like a suffocating cocoon.
Boarding. Flying and getting out of this swamp.
Arrived. Rediscovering the idea of light. Dazzled. Burned.
Nous ne sommes que des actualisations de nos ancêtres.
Tout ça ne semble pas plus vrai qu’un rêve. Un décor avec des ombres colorées. Que le sang intervienne enfin et tout prendra corps.
Penser à bien remercier ce corps pour toutes les expériences qu’il m’a permis de vivre.
I love them all.
I stumbled upon this post today on Gizmodo.com. I couldn’t believe it. Everybody is wondering what are these structures in the middle of the Gansu desert… Works of art commissioned by a Chinese billionaire who bought this part of the desert ? Military training facilities ? Structures meant to be seen from space (by who?) like the Great Wall ? The desert knows…
What strikes me is that the structures are partly already covered by sand… They are all located in the extreme west of Gansu (甘肃) province, near Dunhuang (敦煌), above the Shule river (疏勒河). I want to go there as soon as I can.
Here are some screen shots:
I’ve recently entered a new phase of my work where I will focus on chaos. This video is the first work of my Chaos Cycle. 8:18 min.
A new work has been added to the Vegetation Cycle of my work : Chasma. The final series of this cycle, named Like Flies to Neon Lights, will also be added to the site soon.
Chasma is a work that sparked from the collision of the Greek words χάσμα (chasma) and χάος (chaos). χάσμα designates a chasm, a gulf, a yawning hollow or any wide expanse. χάος has a meaning close to χάσμα in Greek, but chaos nowadays evokes for us profusion, confusion, multiplicity and disorder, all phenomena that one can experience when walking in the forest out of the paths. In my mind, the modern acceptation of the word chaos collided with χάσμα.
On the chaos of the forest, a black hole is forming, a door swallowing all light, a passage to another reality.
(click on the picture to view the full series)
Life = a mass of chaos that doesn’t lead anywhere.
Strange images from the ESA. Another potential found photography project.
Photo: ESA
Photo: ESA
Yes, we live where the 1911 Revolution, also called Xinhai Revolution, started, here in Wuhan. This new museum is meant to celebrate and commemorate the 100 years anniversary of this event. The architecture is quite surprising, the museum looks like a red spaceship. The first picture shows the view from the back. The front is the last picture on this page. Although I like it from the outside, on the inside the architecture doesn’t really breathe, the rooms being rather dark and the ceilings low. But then darkness is necessary if you want to dramatize the event in question…
Photography = you cut in the real to suggest something
It has been a long time I wanted to do a project about cluttered and chaotic Chinese websites. During these years in China, I tumbled upon them many times and was every time in awe in front of their anarchic design and also (I have to admit) deeply repelled. It goes against everything a western web designer is taught to do and not to do (I guess, I’m no designer). It’s flashy, it’s overflowing, it’s gifed, it’s a forest, a jungle, it’s the big bang. Maybe that’s why I took an interest in them : chaotic like forests.
The title of this series comes from a poem by Kenneth White, “Mathematician’s Love Letter”, in Terre de Diamant, a wonderful collection of poems I heartily recommend (I’m currently finally reading his L’Esprit nomade and it’s an amazing ideas stirrer). This poem has only one line, the begining of the letter : “My little catastrophe…“
P.S : I don’t go on these websites daily and I didn’t know some of them before doing some research for this project. Looking for chaos…
New food portfolio here. Don’t drool too much!
Alder Ego is a tree/art blog dedicated to the visual exploration of being human and living with trees and was created by photographer David Paul Bayles, who is also very much into trees and forests. Since yesterday, the blog features Under the Leaves. Thank you David!