The Seine II

Astronomy Domine
Le Seigneur des étoiles
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac 2010
Installation
(Lord of  The Stars)

Le Seigneur des étoiles

Astronomy Domine

Lime and limpid green

a second scene,

A fight between the blue

you once knew.

Floating down the sound resounds

Around the icy waters underground

Jupiter and Saturn

Oberon Miranda and Titania

Neptune Titan

Stars can frighten...you

Blinding signs flap flicker flicker flicker

Blam pow pow

Stairway scare Dan Dare,who's there?

Lime and limpid green

The sound surrounds the icy waters under

Lime and limpid green

The sound surrounds the icy waters

Underground

Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd)

Notre Dame

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The Seine I

Faraway, So Close!
In the background,  the Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge wich crosses the Seine River.
It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre.

“Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . .
 people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.”   

Georges Seurat.

The waters of the River Seine have always been the heart and soul of Paris, dating back to the days when the Parisii tribe first established a fishing village on the island now known as Île de la Cité — between 250 and 200 B.C. Prized for its position as a major inland port, Paris has been invaded, occupied, and conquered by its share of foreigners over the course of two millennia, many of whom arrived by this waterway. The last major invasion by water occurred between 885 and 886 A.D., when 30,000 Norman pirates in 700 ships sailed up the Seine, only to find it valiantly defended by Comte Eudes.

Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, when Paris prospered through extensive river trading and expanded to the Left Bank, the Seine has been a great commercial artery, linked by canals to the Loire, Rhine, and Rhône rivers. Officially established as the capital city by Clovis, king of the Franks (who defeated the Roman governor of Gaul and established the Merovingian dynasty), Paris evolved into a cultural center and a showcase of glorious architecture.

It is appropriate that the center of Paris — particularly that section gracing the Seine around Île de la Cité and Île Saint-Louis — features some of the city's oldest and most majestic historic monuments. (discoverfrance.net)

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Parisian Pixels

Centre Pompidou (Dreamlands Exhibition)

Forum des Halles 

The Map 2 (Rue Pierre Lescot)

Paris Authentic 

Under The Roofs of Paris

Centre Pompidou

Essay

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

                                           -   Buddha

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

                                             -   Unknown

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Musée d'Orsay

Metro

Noon: Rest from Work (After Millet) 

Self Portrait. 1889 Vincent van Gogh

Portrait de la Baronne Robert de Domecy. 1900 Odilon Redon

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

- Vincent van Gogh

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Jardin du Luxembourg

La Fontaine de Médicis (Fountain of Medicis), originally known as La grotte du Luxembourg (The cave of Luxembourg), was commissioned in 1624 by the Marie de Médicis (Marie de' Medici), the second wife and widow of King Henri IV, and mother of King Louis XIII, who wanted to emulate la grotte de Buontalenti in jardins de Boboli in her hometown Florence.

Designed by engineer Florentin Thomas Francine, it comprised of three niches and a pediment with coats of arms of France and Médicis, backed by la fontaine de Léda. The fountain was moved and refitted in 1861. Alphonse de Gisors restored the arms, and created a 50 meter water alley lined with trees. The new basin was filled with the The centerpiece sculpture, added in 1866 by Auguste Louis Ottin, depicts the cyclops, Polyphème, waiting to crush Galatée, who is holding Acis, with a boulder, and Pan faune and Diane chasseresse (Diana the Huntress) watching from each side.

Acis et Galatée (Acis and Galatea) tells the story of a love triangle between the three main characters of Acis, a mortal shepherd, Galatea, a semi-divine nymph, and Poliphème. Poliphème murders Acis out of jealousy, as depicted in this work, but he is revived and turned into a fountain (or river by Neptune, depending on the telling).

The Jardin du Luxembourg, referred to by locals as Luco. is a 224,500 m² public park--the largest in the city--designed in the French style in 1612. The park is centered around thePalais du Luxembourg, constructed between 1615 and 1627 for Marie de Medicis, mother of Louis XIII, and currently the home of the French Senate. The Jardin features two noteworthy fountas--the Fontaine de Medicis, a baroque fountain designed in 1624; and at the southern end, in an extension known as Jardins de l'Observatoire, Davioud, Carpaux and Frémiet's Fontaine de l'Observatoire, erected in 1873. 

Ver. 2

Faune Dansant by Eugene Louis Lequesne 1850.

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