A BAD DREAM (or does collective consciouness exist?)

 

I had a dream. Mon rêve du 25 septembre.

 

Première et quatrième de couverture

 

Carnaval à Jacmel, Haïti.

 In February, M le magazines du Monde published a portfolio of b/w photos by Leah Gordon around the carnaval in Jacmel Haïti.https://www.leahgordon.co.uk/index.php/project/kanaval/ These photos were my inspiration.

                                                          Lansé Kod (the rope throwers)

 

The road to Mandalay

This splendid photo taken by René Gaudier in the paddy fields of Langon, Myanmar, in the early morning gave rise to some "interpretations" on my part:

Coloured inks

Indian ink (black)

Ink on tracing paper (papier calque)

Feria du riz Arles 2019

C'était dans le caveau de la bodega La Muleta

 

 

La fanfare se met en place...

....et commence à jouer

broken glasses - a sort of comic strip

For Christmas I got a Japanese concertina-style sketch book with matching brush pen 

(thanks Valérie). This is what I did with it:

A winter in Provence (2017 - 2018)

Arles has some fine monuments and famous places.

 Some distinctive people

The street art is interesting too.

In La Roquette many street corners have their particular statuary.

Rue Senebier, Quai de la Roquette (the sacred and the profane)