L'écume des nuées

“How can we achieve serenity? Believe, don’t believe, observe, listen, accept without complaint. I don’t know which way to go, so I watch this thin stream of water as it trickles and winds its way through the landscape. There is no doubt. Water has no doubt that it will find its way, even if it has to go through all the twists and turns. Man crosses the hill while water flows around it with certainty. He unloads himself through sweat, burns calories, she loads herself with alluvium, carrying with her everything she can motivate in her current. He sees the sea. She becomes it…

We are swarms of individuals. We do not know each other. Perhaps we will get there through learning, but which learning? Knowing how to distinguish which of our gestures are sincere and simple may be one way. Searching is part of my daily life, how about you?

Water speaks to me. What about you?

Swallow. Cry. Wipe. Dry yourself. Wet. Get wet. Drip!

Transparency, mirror, waves, drops, drop by drop, waterfalls, trickling, flowing, leaking, deluge, tide, deep, dirty, soiling, drying, submerging.

It’s endless, because water is everywhere!

Will we learn from its wisdom?

Be the foam?

Through simple and sometimes demanding physical exercises, games, walks, and immersions in films, books, and paintings, I invite you on an adventure whose heights we cannot control. One thing is certain: we will do it to remind ourselves of our need to feel alive.”

Phia Ménard