Drawing sand
(E.S 2006)
In the Indian Ocean island of La Digue a few metres from the shoreline a graffiti appears on the sand. The drawing is a groove traced with a stick and filled with seaweed, while the pebbles are fish scales. A great fish is about to be harpooned by primitive fishermen; the very moment when the harpoon is being launched. But a moment is a relative concept, it is an abstract time measure which deals with imbalanced perceptions according to their own collocation in the universe. So here comes the slow tide, to accomplish its everyday task imposed by the moon who, as though it were a hand, progressively cancels the traces, using its precise and unforgiving rubber: the sea. The hunted fish resides in the order of the artist who composed it, while the cancelled fish resides in the sea-moon order which cancelled it. |
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