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Under the surface
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Under the surface

03.11.15

  12:56:00 pm, by   , 558 words  
Categories: Art, Collage

Under the surface


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I was born in a country flat like a cake. My first contact with the mountain happened when I was 5 (1946), when I spent six months in a children's home in the Bavarian Alps. But this image does not refer to this. My memories are confined to the refectory, to handicrafts, to the room where I was sleeping and flowery meadows in the spring. Not very happy memories. Then Switzerland next summer, with the discovery of a land of plenty and beautiful landscapes.

It is with this episode from my childhood that I make the link. I see myself quite well in this little boy laughing and confident country, even though that was hardly the case at the time, to me it seems. This idyllic and nostalgic world is yet still there but you have to climb high enough in the mountains to be able to find it. And I am told it is threatened!

The memories, I can revel them as the dog, but I need to go beneath the surface of appearances, discover the forces that are at work. Another harmony arises from it. Certainly, it is neither necessarily conventional nor pleasing to the eye, but the little boy in me cannot help dreaming, sinking beneath the appearance of things he smells like a dog. I have the impression of finding a thousand invisible treasures underneath that I bring to light, like the reflection of another world. Should I remain on the surface and revel in this water although there is a real ocean below? I prefer my snorkeling in the dark like the first explorers of the Deep Blue whose pictures I have discovered when I was a child.

 

 

 

 

 

Je suis né dans un pays plat comme une galette. Mon premier contact avec la montagne date de mes 5 ans (1946) quand j’ai passé 6 mois dans un home pour enfants dans les Alpes bavaroises. Mais cette image ne s’y réfère pas. Mes souvenirs se bornent au réfectoire, aux travaux manuels, à la  chambre où je dormais et aux prés fleuris au printemps. Pas de souvenirs très joyeux.  Puis la Suisse l’été d’après, avec la découverte d’un pays de cocagne et des paysages magnifiques.

C’est donc avec cet épisode de mon enfance que je fais le lien. Je me verrais assez bien dans ce petit garçon rieur et sûr de lui, même si ce n’était guère le cas à l’époque, me semble-t-il. Ce monde idyllique et nostalgique, il existe pourtant encore, mais il faut monter assez haut dans la montagne pour pouvoir le retrouver. Et on me dit qu’il est menacé !

Les souvenirs, je peux m’en délecter comme ce chien, mais il me faut aller sous la surface des apparences, découvrir les forces qui sont à l’œuvre. C’est une autre harmonie qui en surgit. Certes, elle n’est pas conventionnelle ni forcément agréable à l’œil, mais le petit garçon en moi ne peut s’empêcher de rêver, de s’enfoncer sous l’apparence des choses qu’il flaire comme le chien. J’ai l’impression d’y trouver mille trésors invisibles que je ramène à la lumière, comme le reflet d’un autre monde. Faudrait-il rester à la surface et me délecter de cette eau-là alors qu’il y a un véritable océan en dessous ? Je préfère mes plongées en apnée dans l’inconnu à l’instar des premiers explorateurs de la Grande Bleue dont j’ai découvert les images quand j’étais enfant.

 

 

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