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La Baigneuse.

6/16/2018

 
An Island, two friends travelling together, and a camera, longing for telling stories... 
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I believe that those stories, are not coming out of nowhere. They are influenced by dreams, childhood, nature, but also literature. Taking this picture, I was humming this traditional French song, my mum use to sing to me as a child:

"À la claire fontaine
M'en allant promener
J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle
Que je m'y suis baigné

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime jamais je ne t'oublierai..."
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I sens such romanticism all around in that Sardinia beach. A great grey sky, pink rocks,  clear waters and a dark hair girl with a wet dress... Later one, I found the exact words to put on this image. It is from a Flaubert Book : Mémoire d'un fou (Memoirs of a madman in English). 

"Every morning I would go and watch her bathe. From a distance I would contemplate her in the water, envying the peaceful, gentle waves which splashed upon her sides and covered her panting breast with foam. I saw the outline of her limbs beneath the wet clothes that covered her, I saw her heart beat, her breast heave. Distractedly I watched her foot sink upon the sand. My gaze remained fixed on her footprints, and I would almost have wept to see the waves slowly wipe them away."

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More about this story : La Baigneuse.

to fairyland...

6/11/2018

 
Elfs, fairies, and other magic creatures often enchant our childhood.  I  believe that nature, is all magic if we take care of observing with patience....
A poem by Ernest Thompson Seton and a lovely field  Inspired me for this Polaroid Story...
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"Do you seek the road to Fairyland
I'll tell; it's easy, quite.
Wait till a yellow moon gets up
O'er purple seas by night,
And gilds a shining pathway
That is sparkling diamond bright
Then, if no evil power be nigh
To thwart you, out of spite,
And if you know the very words
To cast a spell of might,
You get upon a thistledown,
And, if the breeze is right,
You sail away to Fairyland Along this track of light."
 - Ernest Thompson Seton -

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