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One week in Yunnan (7) : 01-26-2012 / The (Real) Jungle (2)

Fabien — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:39:57 +0000

Misty morning on Menglun (勐仑). Around 11, the sky clears. Today is my jungle day. After about 2 hours of walk in gum trees plantations, I reach the jungle. I walk, get deeper and deeper, lose my way, go back, follow a stream, have a quick lunch and a smoke basking in the light, walk. I’m alone for hours. Only a big butterfly came by. Birds were not far but stayed invisible. Just me, my amazement and the clicks of the camera.

One week in Yunnan (6) : 01-25-2012 / The Jungle (1)

Fabien — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:10:25 +0000

After Menglong (勐龙), bus back to Jinghong (景洪), then bus to Menglun (勐仑), where is located the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园). Spent the afternoon in this park. Rain forest. Reading nearby a lovely pond. The chaos of lush vegetation, finally. But tomorrow I’ll go to a real jungle.

One week in Yunnan (5) : 01-24-2012

Fabien — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:34:27 +0000

One night in Jinghong. Touristy place.
Morning full of light and reflections.

A bus to Menglong (勐龙), small town next to the Burma border.
Hotel room : 50 yuans.
Temple. Words. Vegetation. 2 hours of reading in a forest of gum trees. A local bus shelter. The light, the light, the light.

One week in Yunnan (4) : 01-23-2012

Fabien — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:51:07 +0000

8 hours of bus from Kunming to Jinghong (景洪), the main city of Xishuangbanna (西双版纳). 8 hours witnessing the vegetation transforming, becoming greener, thicker, more and more luxuriant.

First visual contact with the forest, finally.

One week in Yunnan (3) : the whole week

Fabien — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:20:47 +0000

A whole week without touching a computer or going online.
A whole week sleeping every day in a different place and a different bed.
A whole week rediscovering the idea of light.
A whole week awe-struck by those sunrises and sunsets :
– every morning the same miracle, the same light slowly invading the hotel room and me staring
– every evening the same sweetness pouring out of the sky, blue turning violet turning pink turning orange, at the pitch-black edges of the mountains = this hometown sunset I photographed so many times.
A whole week going to bed between 9 and 10 pm. Only on the last day I rediscovered the stars. Living in a big grey city, we forget them. Pollution, city lights, bad weather = screen between us and the cosmos = our cosmic atrophy.

One week in Yunnan (2) : 01-22-2012

Fabien — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:44:47 +0000

Second day in Kunming. Attending ravished at the sunrise on the buildings below me.

The hotel room. Not the chain hotel kind. Obsolete personality.

The city, full of sparkles and superimpositions. The parks, where my skin burned while reading.

One week in Yunnan (1) : 01-21-2012

Fabien — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:48 +0000

Departure : snowing in Wuhan, taxi, airport, wait, impatience to be there, tired of the dullness of this city, of this grey constantly surrounding us like a suffocating cocoon.

Boarding. Flying and getting out of this swamp.

Arrived. Rediscovering the idea of light. Dazzled. Burned.

Sentences that came at the gym (3)

Fabien — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:23:09 +0000

Nous ne sommes que des actualisations de nos ancêtres.

Sentences that came at the gym (2)

Fabien — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:20:58 +0000

Tout ça ne semble pas plus vrai qu’un rêve. Un décor avec des ombres colorées. Que le sang intervienne enfin et tout prendra corps.

Sentences that came at the gym (1)

Fabien — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:16:39 +0000

Penser à bien remercier ce corps pour toutes les expériences qu’il m’a permis de vivre.

Chinese Hotels (1)

Fabien — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:21:50 +0000

I love them all.

圣诞快乐 & Healthy 2012 !

Fabien — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:43:01 +0000

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in Jingmen, Hubei province (2)

Fabien — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:00:10 +0000

Strange drawings/structures in the Chinese Gansu desert :: 甘肃 > 敦煌 > 疏勒河

Fabien — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:41:22 +0000

I stumbled upon this post today on Gizmodo.com. I couldn’t believe it. Everybody is wondering what are these structures in the middle of the Gansu desert… Works of art commissioned by a Chinese billionaire who bought this part of the desert ? Military training facilities ? Structures meant to be seen from space (by who?) like the Great Wall ? The desert knows…
What strikes me is that the structures are partly already covered by sand… They are all located in the extreme west of Gansu (甘肃) province, near Dunhuang (敦煌), above the Shule river (疏勒河). I want to go there as soon as I can.

Here are some screen shots:

Figures of Chaos

Fabien — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:13:31 +0000

I’ve recently entered a new phase of my work where I will focus on chaos. This video is the first work of my Chaos Cycle. 8:18 min.

New work : CHASMA

Fabien — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:14:35 +0000

A new work has been added to the Vegetation Cycle of my work : Chasma. The final series of this cycle, named Like Flies to Neon Lights, will also be added to the site soon.

Chasma is a work that sparked from the collision of the Greek words χάσμα (chasma) and χάος (chaos). χάσμα designates a chasm, a gulf, a yawning hollow or any wide expanse. χάος has a meaning close to χάσμα in Greek, but chaos nowadays evokes for us profusion, confusion, multiplicity and disorder, all phenomena that one can experience when walking in the forest out of the paths. In my mind, the modern acceptation of the word chaos collided with χάσμα.

On the chaos of the forest, a black hole is forming, a door swallowing all light, a passage to another reality.

(click on the picture to view the full series)

Defining is always awkward (2)

Fabien — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:56:56 +0000

Life = a mass of chaos that doesn’t lead anywhere.

From space (2)

Fabien — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:04:12 +0000

Strange images from the ESA. Another potential found photography project.

Photo: ESA

The Revolution of 1911 Museum \ 辛亥革命博物馆

Fabien — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:36:52 +0000

Yes, we live where the 1911 Revolution, also called Xinhai Revolution, started, here in Wuhan. This new museum is meant to celebrate and commemorate the 100 years anniversary of this event. The architecture is quite surprising, the museum looks like a red spaceship. The first picture shows the view from the back. The front is the last picture on this page. Although I like it from the outside, on the inside the architecture doesn’t really breathe, the rooms being rather dark and the ceilings low. But then darkness is necessary if you want to dramatize the event in question…

defining is always awkward

Fabien — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:01:06 +0000

Photography = you cut in the real to suggest something