nous ne notons pas les fleurs.
Nous ne notons pas les fleurs is a multi-form work exploring the ideas of mobility and the impermanence of political borders in contrast to the tendency to freeze them. The title of this work, Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, is taken from a dialogue in Le Petit Prince (Saint-Exupéry, 1943), where a geographer tells the Little Prince that geographers do not record flowers because, unlike the earth, flowers are ephemeral. The work originally […]
ephemera.
I do record flowers, because they are ephemeral. Nous ne notons pas les fleurs is a multiple-channel video developed from an installation and interactive performance with video…
first half.
In Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, I started with a bed of mixed flowers. I have previously made a draft image that showed the shape of India and its 28 states arranged with the four colours of the flowers…
almost there.
I drove a car from Digha Ghat to in the Hanuman flower market in Patna this morning. Perhaps it is fair to say that it is quite an achievement? You can ask Arvind and Naresh for their accounts. The rest…
les fleurs.
The flowers have arrived! Arvind was really kind to buy them in the Hanuman market for me. Yellow and orange marigold, red hibiscus, and white rajnigandha. The whole day today, I prepared my site. I started with marking the outer…
nous ne notons pas les fleurs.
– Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, dit le géographe. – Pourquoi ça! c’est pas joli! – Parce que les fleurs sont éphémères. from Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It has been 4 days since I first started working…