Posts Tagged: Désir

In love with the gardener…

Song

We saw his star in the east.

“We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him” Matthew 2: 2

Like the present and the past are one

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Like the present and the past are one
The lightness of youth and the lightness of detachment
Treading a line between the fall and the wild
Attracted in weightlessness

Margot Krebs Neale aux jARTdins de Montagny-en-Vexin – Exposition 2017

Les 15èmes jARTdins de Montagny ont été pour moi l’occasion de très belles rencontres mais aussi bien sûr l’occasion de faire un travail personnel à exposer.

Comme ce travail m’a amenée à présenter 5 montages accompagnés de réflexions et de commentaires, je vais présenter l’ensemble sur cette page et vous pourrez cliquer sur chacune des photos si vous le souhaiter pour trouver une page plus complète consacrée soit au Passé, soit aux Chemins de Vie, soit au Désir, soit au Rêve soit enfin au Silence.

Le thème que je me suis donné d’abord en anglais :Being & Belonging est devenu au fil du travail Intégrité et Intégration

Le Passé

J’essaie de dire d’où je viens… chacun de nous est un puzzle.

Chemins de Vie

remettre en question les valeurs qui nous font vivre.

Le Désir

La question du désir

Le Mystère

«Ce n’est pas tout le monde qui peut photographier ses rêves»

Le Silence

Passé fait de silence, choix et désir habités de silence, rêves pays du silence pour finir essayer de photographier le silence

Nos désirs

I took this photograph in Rennes after violent clashes between demonstrators, rioters and the police.

When I came back I read the last sonnet in the sequence of seven sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer by Malcolm Guite.

Here it is :

Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory

The kingdom and the power and the glory,
The very things we all want for ourselves!
We want to be the hero of the story
And leave the others on their dusty shelves.
How subtly we seek to keep the kingdom,
How brutally we hold on to the power,
Our glory always means another’s thralldom,
But still we strut and fret our little hour.

What might it mean to let it go forever,
To die to all that desperate desire,
To give the glory wholly to another,
Throw all we hold into that holy fire?
A wrenching loss and then a sudden freedom
In given glories and a hidden kingdom.

For all parties to reflect.

Striving to have μεράκι

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Tulips in a vase, both beautiful and banal.
I wondered how to photograph them
A perspective from below to try to express the feeling of rising, growing even after they have been cut
The life that remains for a long time in bulb plants.
It did not look good, too much "contre-jour"
Keep them partly behind the curtain? Some element unseen always being more interesting.
Then the problem was the background, seing the house behind our house a sad very regular outline.
So take the picture from above?
The window became a problem, it really is not a pretty window and choosing a landscape format, it became more visible.
Then I thought to use the rather unsightly black rubber around those windows as if it was the black line that one was able to frame one's photograph with in the days of printing photos in the lab.
A favourite feature in Henri Cartier-Bresson's work, maybe to show the photos were never cropped.
Then the question: all around or not? The answer "not quite".

Striving to have μεράκι...

μεράκι (meraki): the word entered the Greek language from Turkish, but its meaning has evolved in Greek into a very complex concept of good taste, hard work and positive attitude towards hard labour.

Someone has meraki when that person is good at their job, when they do it dutifully and with great attention to detail no matter how hard it might be, without complaining, but rather enjoying and taking pride in it.

It can also be used in the sense of yearning.
from:
Lost in Translation.

Uma dona lisboeta

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Who are you beautiful statue behind grilles ? a writer ? A poetess ?
Are you trapped or are you free?
When I saw you I was struck by your beauty and took this picture,
but then I tried to make a portrait without the wires and I managed
but in the process your expression changed,
it looked more controlled, less thoughtful.
The quill became less visible and you became a tame lady with a book.
Now I prefer this picture
maybe you are not so tame
and this would be the reason for the grilles ?
Or do they make you feel safe to be less tame?

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Will I catch it?

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