Here are my current explorations…
This section is a work in progress. A journaling and writing experiment, of sorts.
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- Wrong Direction - I’m exploring the idea of turning back, intentionally, and going in the wrong direction – at least in appearance. The impetus for this exploration came from a habit I have of mapping out my itinerary after I complete a trip, usually in the simplest doodle-like way. My most recent trip to Europe concluded a few […]
- Nestled - The small village where I grew up, about 40 miles west of Paris, was nestled in the countryside, surrounded by fields, mostly of wheat and rapeseed. This was the closest place to the capital where my parents could afford a plot of land as a young couple in the 1970s. The house was still being […]
- Creases - From ages 2 to 7, we spent most of our family holidays in southern Brittany, where my Mum had grown up. While drawing in the sand and building sandcastles was fun, what I loved most was when the tide was low enough for me to roam the dark granite rocks that surrounded my Mum’s favourite […]
- Ballet - Southern France, where the Pyrenees meet the Mediterranean, one summer in the early 1980s… The land around our rented holiday home looks more like a desert than a garden. I guess the few attempts at growing plants were quickly undone by the fierce sunshine and long, dry summers. I’m sitting on the biggest stone I […]
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