A l'état sauvage (2)

Feet on the ground, but looking up ... so I hold a kind of photographic diary of the sky, always seen from my garden, my windows, tight shots that capture the subtle shades of gray stormy days, shades of sunrises, animals and fantastic profiles that reveal the shape of clouds One day, there were clouds with an extraordinary shape .... I saw Japanese mountains in the mist, mentally I put «this image» in negative, the clouds became mountains and I saw a print, a dreamed landscape. By adding an ink drawing of a Sika deer, sacred animal in Japan, I made it «the guardian of the forest». This photograph was the first of a series that allowed me to illustrate a sentence of Sitting Bull that I made mine: «the Earth doesn’t belong to Man, it’s the Man who belongs to the Earth». So each small silhouette blends with the landscape, does not impose itself and each legend proposes the beginning of a story: The guardian of the forest - Between earth and sky - When the clouds piled up on the ridge, Buzzard rose, higher, towards the light - The watcher - To get up with the morning star ... This series, an ode to what is left of free and beautiful on earth, is an invitation to enter wild lands, immemorial landscapes, mysterious places, to imagine and preserve the living. Go from negative to positive, become the guardians of the Earth.