Jan 26, 2006

reflexes on the city

After 3 wonderful art exhibitions we flaneured around downtown following the tracks of the reflexes on the buildings and other urban surfaces. We took photos. Capturing the movement is difficult and the lightless makes the images blurred. How to capture the mobile silhouettes reflected in multiple images everywhere ? Glass, metal, water, asphalt. Also ice. In the ice rink by the river is already night. The rink is empty, just a machine watering the ice. The water creates fresh reflexions. There's people waiting with the skates on. It's cold and we go inside. A huge video-wall shows the rink. Searching for reflexions we look at the glass of the window. An accumulation of the real rink and the screen mix together. People are having fun. We go out-side again to take pictures. For the movement I chose the video camera. Try to catch the glide, the laugh, the hands, the body slicing, relaxing from the stress of another day.

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