(Image courtesy of Bird and Bear)

VI
Against the black
I have more fervour
than you in all the splendour of that place,
against the blackness
and the stark grey
I have more light;

and the flowers
if I should tell you,
you would turn from your own fit paths
toward hell,
turn again and glance back
and I would sink into a place
even more terrible than this.

VII
At least I have the flowers of myself,
and my thoughts, no god
can take that;
I have the fervour of myself for a presence
and my own spirit for light;

and my spirit with its loss
knows this;
though small against the black,
small against the formless rocks,
hell must break before I am lost;

before I am lost,
hell must open like a red rose
for the dead to pass.

(excerpt from Eurydice by H.D.)

chanelling

Maëva makes

tarte au sucre d'érable de la Beauce.



This is a very traditional Quebecois desert that involves boiling sugar, water and maple syrup (preferable from Beauce as this receipe states), adding a roux (butter and flour heated until they are thick and golden) and 15% cream and then baking it in the perfect pie crust.

Voilà let your taste buds imagine this delight of smooth mapley filling surrounded by fluffy and flakey pastery.

who was almost forgot;

arriving or leaving Villa Les Laurelles required climbing up or down these stairs.
Ajaccio, Corse.

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Jules.
Drummondville, QC.

I who had lived unconscious,

The ocean, foot steps away.
Plage Trottel, Ajaccio, Corse.

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Jessica Schmidt star jumps and Maëva attempts to capture it at 3am, Limoulou, QC.

I am broken at last,

Place Foch (aka a square and statue dedicated to the honour of Napoleon). Ajaccio, Corse.

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research for Iceland Residency in Sigulfjordur. Images from the exhibition Come up to my room at the Gladstone Hotel.
Drummondville, QC.

News

In the space of a week I got a job, an internship, changed some little things in my blog (do you like?) and met one of my roommates, a film maker who is moving to Hawaii. (can you say FUCKING AWESOME...)

I saw a great exhibition yesterday: Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at Canadian Centre for Architecture. I would recommend reading it and trying to track down some of his tracks to listen to. He composes his pieces using mathematical equations, first charting them out in different variations on graph paper and then translating them into readable music.
My favourite piece is Terretektorh, where the musicians are dispersed amongst the audience in a circular formation around the conductor creating an immersion for the audience in the music and an almost 3D experience.


(Study for Terretektorh (distribution of musicians). Image courtesy of CCA)

I've been walking, riding my trusty stead, drinking A LOT of tea (I know what you were thinking), looking and listening, and revisiting my photographic experiences from two french lands: Corsica and Drummondville. (see photo posts in this blog!)

Check out this great article about Montreal by the NYTimes - They'll get you by the first sentence, if not, by the time they've stated that Montreal is the other Paris. I guess that's why I love it so much. Is there another place in the world that is the "Other Paris"? That's a pretty big thing.

Also check out my new place(s) of empoloyment/internshipment.
École de langue de l'UQÀM
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse. On passant, La Centrale is the oldest artist run centre in all of Quebec and emerged after the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s to give a platform for women and other underrepresented artists. They bring art to the streets, that means they want to take art out of the suffocating white cube! At the end of what I thought was going to be the interview but was more like a meeting I said that I was really excited and happy to have the opportunity to intern there and be involved in an artist centre in Montreal. And they said 'you found the right address because it's fun here' (but in French, of course).

so for your arrogance

Selling sea urchins by the sea shore.
Parc Berthault, Ajaccio, Corse.

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Canoe races in the St Lawrence river in February. aka crazy people.
Québec, QC.

dead cinders upon moss of ash

chez Maëva, Villa les Laurelles, Parc Bertheault, Ajaccio, Corse.

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I wanted to live by this park. Rue Poirier meets rue Brock and rue Heriot. Drummondville, QC.

Dancing Solar Flowers

Artist Alexandre Dang created a work called "Dancing Solar Flowers", an artwork dedicated to better life for mankind. It will be exhibited at the Belgian & European Pavillion of World Expo Shanghai 2010. His works often trigger debate about issues linked with sustainable development, environment and energy.

In Dancing Solar Flowers, see a video here each flower integrates an engine with a solar cell. The solar cell converts light into electricity that powers the engine which then allows the flower to move, or dance.

The impetus behind much of Dang's work is the need to raise awareness of the potential of environmentally friendly technologies or eco-technologies and sustainable development. Many of us man not know that the sun provides 10 000 times more energy to the earth than humans needs, yet more than 1.7 million people still do not have access to electricity. The need to address this major issue is the driving force behind Dang's work. He combines scientific approaches, environmental concern and humanism in order to address these concerns in his work which involves kinetic art using solar energy for its power source.

where dead lichens drip

Corse flora. Ajaccio, Corse.

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I've always loved this building. Drummondville, QC.

Front entrance painted International Klein Blue .

I am swept back

FLNC liberta insignia, cours Grandval, Ajaccio, Corse.

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Green orzo salad made with couscous (not a good plan) (but a good salad when made with orzo like it should be) (see 101 cookbooks for recipe) and giant corona.
Drummondvill, QC