IL FAUT CULTIVER
NOTRE JARDIN...
New Images of My Garden — 2008
Two Hanging Scrolls of the garden at Villa Parasol: see www.villaparasol.com/Scrolls08.htm
This is the year of the philosophers...
Elsewhere you can find Nietzsche's walk at Eze (http://www.villaparasol.com/EzeFNtop.htm) and this present page-in-progress documents sketches & photographs of my garden in France.
NB: the page devoted to pictures of my village is http://www.villaparasol.com/frDuranus.htm
and Villa Parasol in The Financial Times is at http://www.villaparasol.com/fintimV05.htm.
GARDENS & VOLTAIRE
In the last line of his "Candide", Voltaire suggests we need to cultivate our own garden. The phrase is simple enough but has caught on and no quotations dictionary can skip it. The sentiment encourages us to cultivate, and suggests we keep ourselves to our own business.
FIRST SKETCHES FROM MEMORY:
"VANG" SKETCHBOOK of 6.iv.VIII
all: graphite or ink on A4 or twice A4, done on the flight to London
Note: This "Vang" Sketchbook is in fact the same sketchbook as the one used for the work on Nietzsche's walk at Eze; the Nietzsche pages start at one end and the Voltaire at the other, and they are working their way to the middle... Make of that what you wish!
inside cover, p.1; ink brush-pen
sketch I, pp.2/3; ink brush-pens
sketch II, p.5; graphite
sketches III & IV, pp.6 & 7; graphite
sketches V & VI, pp.9 & 8 [sic]; graphite
sketch VII, pp.10/11; graphite
sketch VIII, pp.12/13; ink
sketch IX, pp.14/15; graphite
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sketch X, pp.16; graphite |
sketch XI, pp.17; graphite |
sketch XII, pp.18/19; graphite
sketch XIII, pp.20/21; graphite
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sketch XIV, pp.22; graphite |
sketch XV, pp.23; graphite |
COLOUR WORK
sketch XVI, pp.26/27; 15.vi; soft pastels & pierre noire
EARLIER IMAGES OF VILLA PARASOL
Villa Parasol; graphite; 2002
Villa Parasol: the Wisteria Walk; photo-collage in PhotoShop; 2002
