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PRAISE OF THE DARK :<\/p>\n
Of all that my job leads me to try to master, artificial light has always been what I dread the most.<\/p>\n
So much so that in the early 80s, I almost only lit myself with candles! A way around the problem Excerpt from the book <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alas the exquisit Japanese book offered me no recipe to use in my work.<\/p>\n However, in the same way as color, artificial light has the formidable power of recomposing a space<\/span>, which clearly indicates In the fall, when our days are little by little eaten up by our nights and the light dims, a moment of sadness sets in But do not expect a flood of light from me, for I intend to leave to shade and even to darkness the place they deserve.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRAISE OF THE DARK : Of all that my job leads me to try to master, artificial light has always<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":66406,"parent":39779,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59042","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nnot really applicable everywhere. And even though I write in “Praise of the Dark” …
\nThe discovery of “In Praise of Shadows” (Junichir\u00f4 Tanizaki 1933)<\/span>, in the 1980s, was a huge relief for me.
\nFinally I could put words to the value of shade and shadow.
\nFor they are absent from our aesthetic education. We are taught how to render shade, but only to emphasize volume.
\nExactly in the same way as, in our cultures, we only perceive the full and completely conceal the empty.
\nFear of the vacuum is the expression of an existential fear that is evident in many interiors,
\nand although certainly at its height in other times,
\nit remains very present today (strengthened by unrestrained consumption).
\nThe shadow, the emptiness and silence can all be placed in the cabinet of curiosities.<\/p>\n
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\nhis importance. The goal does not seem to me to be looking for a copy of the light of day, because the night has its identity
\nand we need the succession of day and night for our balance.
\nThe night<\/span>, the darkness, and its procession of fears \u2026 and transgressions!<\/p>\n
\nor worry. We know however that the light will return, but the fear of the dark is there,
\ncoming from very buried times in our history.
\nIt’s time to think about the other light, the artificial one, the one that saves us from the great darkness. return in the evening,
\nand quickly, turn on a soft light is a healthy gesture. The halo of the lamp defines a refuge-space<\/span> that night does not invade.
\nIt redefines spaces, it tells another way of living them.<\/p>\n