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Summer ! A beautiful brand new
summer
As we do every year, we prepare the statues for the june
festival... I go and fetch them in the cellar and I install them in the
garden
- they are so heavy ! And you remove the dust from them,
and wash them and then you help me with the settings and the final tuning which
is always a bit delicate
The garden is composed of small but very
sunny "� la fran�aise" clearings, dropped here and there among a vaster and
thicker arrangement of far more english inspiration - not to say worse. The
whole garden is not very big but it is very rich as regards the multiplicity and
diversity of the view points
I carry the
statues with the wheelbarrow and I put them in the
clearings
There are
several sorts of statues...
First, there is
the ones that are conveniently distributed at the corners of the
greenery.
It is a type of statues in the shape of moon crescents set
on a column of about 15 centimers wide and of some 60 centimeters
high
The inside of the moon crescent is concave, a bit like a guttering or
a bicycle mudguard, the concavity being wider and deeper on the front side and
narrowing and getting thinner towards the rear.
All around the
column, tall weeds are let to grow freely with ears large and furry enough and
extremely sweet to the touch. To increase the effect, during the days when
festivals are held, long and coloured feathers are almost always added all
around the columns, such as pheasant and peacock feathers for
instance.
The women
who come to the june festival know quite well that they should not wear anything
under they dresses on such a day. That would be a pity. Just as they also know
that they should rather wear simple, long and wide skirts, made of one single
piece of material tied around their waists, like loinclothes, in such a way that
they may be opened and closed in one swift movement, at will.
When a lady installs herself above a column, her skirt hides the
column entirely, so that no one sees whether the lady is sitting on something or
whether she is just standing
In the case of
the moon shaped statues, the lady let the moon enter under her skirt, riding the
crescent so to say, with the higher end of it before her, but she does not sit.
The peacock feathers are kindly touching the higher part of her thighs and the
tall and fresh weeds caress her legs while the warmth accumulated in the moon
shaped stone radiate towards the lower parts of her belly, so that the lady let
herself go with a graceful and natural ease
The precious liquid
then follows the moon shaped stone guttering, is collected in a cupel located at
the rear, right under the lower end of the crescent. From there it runs along a
small groove that passes through the core of the column and finally arrives in a
bowl surrounded with moss and marshland plants in such a way that the lady may
see her gold run, dance and glitter in the
sunlight
while she gently flows away
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