Metro Javel is on the left bank along the Seine in the 15th arrondissement. A modern neighborhood; lots of new buildings. I give an English class on the 24th floor in one called the Crystal Tower (pretentious name I must admit but really nice people).
There's this strip of land that's neither a park nor a wasteland separating two roads. Normally dusty; a place for dogs. But one day in early summer I came across some wild flower plantations that seemed to have miraculously sprouted up. Poppies, daisies, little carnations, high grass. It looked like the garden workers of Paris rebelled and threw all their extra seeds in these plots of land. I was enchanted. Thus these paintings.
No comments:
Post a Comment