WRECKS: OF SALT AND RUST, SHIPWRECKAGES AS SHATTERING MEMORIES OF ANOTHER TIME...

Épave de Navire Militaire - Albanie

From Noah's Ark to the Raft of the Medusa, did the shipwrecked choose their captain well? As Publius Syrus said, "Don't blame the sea for your second shipwreck."

Wrecks are a pictorial theme that has always attracted me in the philosophical sense of the thing. Indeed, the link is quite obvious with the journey of life and the fact that nature returns at a gallop ... a shipwreck is by definition a human fault, its vile side which seeks to outwit nature and which does not distrust it. The vast oceans reject these carcasses which have not been able to tame them, even less understand them. What is Man in the face of this silent force which nevertheless roars with its swell and unleashes the elements to take justice into its own hands, the latter will always be right. The coastline is this frontier where wrecks tell these dark stories, like the scars on the skin, they remain and fade with time but never disappear. Wrecks are full of materials ... imposing carcasses of metal, they seem to let themselves be tossed by the waves before becoming an object at the bottom of the aquarium, the fauna and flora will accommodate them. Do not forget that this remains in its time a pollution and an unfortunate occurrence, even tragic, it only leaves the photographic opportunity.

What I like most about wrecks is the drone approach, the water recolors, the lines appear, a minimalist style emerges and there is nothing magical, only gaining height, but the result is often beyond what one expects both in terms of the overall rendering and the colors never suspected. The moment is also appreciated, feeling an almost astonishing calm, while the building has flexed before the sea, sometimes it creaks like moans but the water swallows all the sounds, it is the calm after the storm. All that remains is to make a scene of spectacle and find something artistic in it.

"He who is shipwrecked trembles at the sight of still waters."

Ovid