For “Courir la lande”, his new opus illustrated by “drawings taken from life” by his friend Marc Large, Gilles Kerlorc'h dipped his sensitive pen at the intersection of the route des huts, “summary shelters of the shepherds and Landes resin workers”, and the river path, (Leyre, Estrigon, Estampon and Douze).
Texts and watercolors, complicit and complementary, accompany this shared quest for high places on the moors that could be compared to an urbex (1) in the heart of nature. No address or map to support these often magical places which are earned (sometimes at the end of improbable walks), but which can also never be given: “So the path to the moor becomes a pretext and the twilight allows me to disappear both from the eyes of men and from my own discomfort. »
The improbable as a compass
Devil's eye and other mirrors of water, forgotten sanctuaries, healing fountains, sacred stones, remarkable trees or secret animals mark this walk on unmarked paths where the quest for the improbable serves as a compass. And sometimes the surprise is big, especially when you provoke it while walking at night, in the middle of the forest…
We do not know who, the author or the landscape, crosses the other as these moments are so fusional and the impregnation is so great. To read to make your feet dream.
(1) Urbex: short for urban exploration, the practice of visiting places abandoned by man and inaccessible to the public.
“Courir la lande” by Gilles Kerlorc'h and Marc Large published by Passiflore with the support of the Landes Departmental Council, Drac Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
