Le passage de la nuit
“At night, after the rain, the tarmac gives the light back twice. The konbini’s light, red and white, and the street lamp’s, orange, running down the stri…
€800 — Popsan
“At night, after the rain, the tarmac gives the light back twice. The konbini’s light, red and white, and the street lamp’s, orange, running down the stripes of the crossing. That is what I was after: the moment when the ground shines brighter than the sky. The woman I painted small, an ochre coat and a dark umbrella in the middle of the junction; I don’t know where she is going, and it’s none of my business. What holds me is the shop behind her. It is open, it will still be open in three hours, it will be open when no one walks past any more. Whole cities stay standing thanks to these windows lit for nobody. I laid the reflections on in thick paint, almost too bluntly — rain doesn’t do nua…
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