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Drawings of Francois Schuiten rescuscitent dreams of Jacques Abeille

"Originally, there's a novel.

This novel has a story. Cursed.

Almost a black legend.

And readers. Few.

, smugglers who pass

the book, as a myth,

or sorcery. "

The blows of fate that marked the path of the garden statuary have not been enough to negate the sacrifice of some smugglers who marveled at the dream world of Jacques Bee, tried disclose the secret, the password leading to the gardens.
Like Le Grand Meaulnes of Alain Fournier , Seasons of Maurice Pons or Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry of , statuary Gardens is a skilled workforce cult since it may well mark deep and lasting one who seizes it. It is a gateway leading to an open cycle of the unknown, while firmly rooted in a world of unsuspected familiarity. When the book reached the hands of the Belgian artist Francis Schuiten (responsible for the cycle of the obscure cities in collaboration with Benoît Peeters ) it immediately recognized a convergence with its mode of expression, a relationship with his world. It did little more that the two artists decided to put their talents to a work driven by a common passion, that of giving life to dreams wildest.
Seas lost under no genesis of this cycle, or an epilogue to it. It is rather a work that the reader can satellite, according to his imagination, according to his mood and his ramblings, inserted at the place he deems fit to find him.

The expedition will be the subject of the story is told us through one of its members, the writer in charge, accompanied by a young geologist, a guide and a cartoonist. The split is emerging between the different personalities gives rise to a suspicion that challenges the collaboration essential to the success of the mission entrusted to them. Rally lost lands bordering the seas appears to be a journey where the dark sides of cleared areas blend into the mysteries raised by the ambiguous attitude of some members of the expedition. In this atmosphere of distrust, the writer confides to his friend the fears that arise in everyday life, through letters that will be delivered by a courier devoted to this task. Throughout the journey, we are led to question the predominant source of danger, namely the inhospitable lands covered or adversity of fellow adventurers.

oversized statues that litter the terrain of this terra incognita are further evidence of a struggle between the extent of their natural curves and the proliferation of urban materials, which s 'interwoven, that one can not determine whether this was caused by penetration painful desire to develop city or, conversely, a tendency emerging in the heart of these statues to want to conquer the territory that the man was captured in over the centuries.
fact remains that we remain enthralled by the work of staging for to combine the features of the designer and the words of the writer. The illustrations offered here allow for the creation as a whole to avoid the charge prohibitive that we may bring to such works.
Indeed, each of them is here introduced with words which outline the history of their design, the array elements, and the emotions they evoke. The association becomes so smooth that it leads the reader to ask about the inspiration that the work of one has inspired among the other artist. However, the outline of a figure unrecognizable, appearing regularly on stage the designer, creates doubt in the mind of the writer, up to question the similarity of the respective perceptions of the decor.
Francois Schuiten has returned the magnitude of these statues in their appearance profoundly land, to make palpable the image of their distress. The games on the scales and terrain, compounded by the space given to images are absolutely amazing.
Writing about Jacques Abeille she married the anthropomorphic forms of the sculptures in their contours, indentations and other imperceptible cracks which can not be said if the work time or humanity.

Legends supplied by the tribe of Hulains they will reconnect with a past that refuses to show up? More
a march towards the discovery, clearing a stretch of sea lost, the aim of the expedition seems more than ever the highlighting of successive steps that have led to such chaos. The revelations made available to these travelers will they be the ones they were entitled to expect such an adventure? Do they know the only goal of the task they have promised to perform with the best possible consciousness? Lost in these seas, the reader is forced into a corner the psychology of this writer that ignores the initiation quest he is about to undertake. It
with delight that we get lost in the maze of his mind.

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