Where we find the natural elements appearing in the last two sequences, in different arrangements and colours, in an almost unchanged chronological order.
First version of the sequence: a rather fast running of the elements ...
Second version of the sequence: slower running and the dominant blue colour ...
Third version: even slower, and all in black and white except for a few seconds.
A few snapshots from the different versions of the sequence:
Water again, here in all its states: vaporous, liquid or solid.
first movement: the volutes emitted by the geysers of El Tatio in Chile, the swell near South Georgia and the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula.
second movement: the waves of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
third movement: the sprawling expanses of Lake Titicaca or the Pacific off the coast of Peru, and again the geysers of El Tatio.
Various snapshots from the animated sequence :
A sequence mainly using videos shot during a recent trip to Bolivia, Chile and Peru, wich reflect a continuous movement in a setting of natural elements.
first movement: a long flying over the surface of the Salar de Uyuni, a salt lake with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres in Bolivia; depending on the places, the surface looks very different and is reproduced here as it appears, apart from a few rare digital treatments.
second movement: fast run on the salar, following closely, or from far away, the lines traced by the ground markings of a road winding through the Chilean Atacama Desert.
third movement: still in the salar, slow sunrise on the horizon; in the foreground, new salt surfaces in Uyuni or the vast water expanses of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Peru.
The only photos presented so far in the "drawings" section were those used in the animated sequences.
But here, rather than choosing instant extracts from the video, which could have been very numerous, we prefer to show three photos taken on the Salar of Uyuni; having not been digitally processed a posteriori, these photos give an idea of the exceptional graphic character of the site.
A new series of compositions, all in black and white with sometimes a little red or blue:
A progression towards a horizon never reached, along sinuous lines and textured surfaces, with jerks, the fleeting passage of different patterns and detours along the side paths. You will notice that each movement ends roughly as it started.
first movement: rather sinuous lines ...
second movement: more textured surfaces ...
third movement: lines and surfaces deformed in 3D space ...
In the last movement, the symmetry between the beginning and the end is not obvious at first sight; however, after having more or less followed the course of a red line, the camera turns halfway so that - now along a blue line - we once again cross each of the objects encountered successively in the first half of the course, but seen from another angle and with some marginal changes in position or shape.
Winding lines,
textured surfaces,
and motifs passing fleetingly
which are superimposed in the progression towards the horizon, in the first movement for example:
or in the second movement, in particular with the twisting of one of the flat surfaces:
and finally in the third movement, with the same set of 3D objects seen from two different angles on the outward and return journeys:
Note that each composition includes some elements of the previous one.
The looped sequence of compositions could therefore have served as a basis for an animated sequence, such as this one: