Building the Sky undoubtedly wins the prize for the title which reveals the most beautiful promises and mysteries. We follow the trajectory of a young woman who will try to rise in every sense of the word…
Travelers and curious people come from far and wide to observe it. The island has built its reputation on its height, constantly magnified by builders, architects, builders, sculptors who continue to magnify it. For the young people who live at its feet, in its long shadow, only one option emerges to escape the deadly life that is looming: flee Salve, the soulless city, and thus reach the steep slopes of the island which lies ahead. escape in dizzying vertical lines. Between the two life choices, the young woman in the story never hesitates because she dreams of finally existing by making her contribution. One morning she leaves in his direction without ever looking back. Once she arrives at her destination, she will climb the initiatory stages one after the other and will see the doors open to a destiny that she dreamed of marrying. Within the group of Builders, she will be a sculptor, supreme recognition for the little girl she once was. She will take her task to heart, allowing herself initiatives to constantly beautify her environment made up of this dull and perspectiveless Baltic stone: “By bringing in lapis lazuli, tortoise shells and elephant teeth, I dresses and transforms these places that they do not know how to inhabit: lights from the stained glass windows, blue mosaics, ocher and yellow colors, pigmentation of the statues, everything is good to disguise the Baltic, bland prison stone white which they nevertheless continue to venerate. » Over the days, months, years the young woman, obsessed with her work, rushing headlong into her projects and desires, won over by a devouring passion for her function here on high, will awaken again. She will question the meaning given to everything that has led her until now into a questioning, which is as much a questioning of a built sky which is collapsing in entire shreds: “Asking the question of the Bottom does not has no meaning on the island. Magnetized by Heaven, we do not even consider it. And yet, despite our open contempt for the Bottom, I sometimes wonder if we are not lying to ourselves”…
Build the sky. Perspective of a life, of a desire for the young woman in the story composed by Sarah Serre. Carried by a writing which leaves to the words the weight of all their meanings, literal and figurative, the story which is told to us can be read as an initiatory fable about the desire to grow, to free oneself from a past that is too heavy. and without relief, and immerse themselves in new designs which, however, could become alienating too quickly. In this blind belief in a limitless perspective, which leaves little opportunity to look at the windings of the path that took us there, everyone could perhaps forget what makes sense. To simply forget yourself. A first story whose formal beauty is intimately linked to the metaphor developed by its author, capable of stimulating and questioning the reading and the imagination that is built there.
Sarah Serre – Building the sky – The word and the rest
