L'écorce
PhotosYou can look beneath my eyelids –without tearing them off–
If you stay quiet, you will hear them: there is a lake and a storm.
If things had eyelids, I wonder what they would hide inside them. Jacques told me the other day that he had a house with closed eyelids. I read in an ancient treatise on astronomy that 50,000 years ago, the seven stars of the Great Bear lined up to form a true cross, more accurate and even more beautiful than the Southern Cross. The chapter on The Dislocation of the Heaven reminded me of an image I had in my archives: an image of a graveyard, where a cross had changed places, leaving a white imprint, a mirror that was not a mirror. The cross was still there and at the same time it was only a memory. Beneath our eyelids, we all have skies that break up, in them is what we were and what we are, the movement of our own stars in a time that is intimately ours, like a diary. They are images that one day shone and then faded, hidden just on the other side of this bark made of skin. That writes our memory of time.
If you stay quiet, you will hear them: there is a lake and a storm.
If things had eyelids, I wonder what they would hide inside them. Jacques told me the other day that he had a house with closed eyelids. I read in an ancient treatise on astronomy that 50,000 years ago, the seven stars of the Great Bear lined up to form a true cross, more accurate and even more beautiful than the Southern Cross. The chapter on The Dislocation of the Heaven reminded me of an image I had in my archives: an image of a graveyard, where a cross had changed places, leaving a white imprint, a mirror that was not a mirror. The cross was still there and at the same time it was only a memory. Beneath our eyelids, we all have skies that break up, in them is what we were and what we are, the movement of our own stars in a time that is intimately ours, like a diary. They are images that one day shone and then faded, hidden just on the other side of this bark made of skin. That writes our memory of time.