Paris France, 1 October, 2005






i lived in paris for a couple of years and learned a culture that holds some of the most friendly, curious, and kind people i've met.  what i didn't love was the claustrophobia which some might feel comfortable, but which i, fluttering california nomad, found unbearable.  i need sun and large open tracts of space, like many americans.


life in paris is underground.


my solution to this ill feeling was to take photographs of the sky, which i called "hedspace". despite the fact that my love affair with madame ancienne was a little dented due to my emotional needs, i've missed her terribly and i haven't been back in over a year.  during that time i've had some creeping unconscious fret that paris would go away.  that she would evaporate, or mysteriously be swallowed by the earth; a terranian Atlantis with tip of the eiffel tower sinking slowly into a field... or something.


the eiffel tower will go away since, finally, everything goes away, but eventually i realized that it was I who would go away, and not paris.  of course it was then that i became hungry for her and went out into her streets in a leaking frenzy, visiting my old ghost-memories that each haunt the corners of the city of light and dark.


i had 24 hours in paris and i used them like a machine.  i drove them like i would a car, late for an appointment with god.















the rules of the game were like so:


24 hours, 24 pictures.





















café avec etienne: 18:42


	










cimetière du montmartre, 20:57:


	










rue andre antoinne, 23:20


	










rue androuët, 23:38


	










rue androuët, 23:39


	










rue des trois frères, 23:55


	










couloir, 01:20


	










moi dans l'ascenseur, 01:21


	










rue de generalle lasalle, 09:36


	










station republique, 09:51


	










cafe bastille (avec amélie), 10:16


	










colonne du bastille (encore avec amélie), 12:04


	










ludovic duchateau, 13:18


	










metro, ligne 2, 13:32


	










boulevard st. martin, 14:40


	










rue château d'eau / lancry, 14:55


	










quai de jemmapes / rue faubourg du temple, 15:22


	










quai de jemmapes / rue faubourg du temple, 15:24


	










place du république, 15:32


	










place du république, 15:33


	










station auber, 16:28


	










train b3, 16:50


	










train b3, 17:10


	












aéroport charles-de-gaulle / roissy: 18:32