Sleeping with Andy Goldsworthy

[shewhomust]

The Guardian's latest attempt to destabilise my holiday plans is this piece about a project in Provence in which Andy Goldsworthy is collaborating with the Musée Gassendi in Digne to construct a series of works linked by some hundred miles of footpaths. (I can't find the text of the article on line, but the video is for once well worth watching). The distances involved sound a bit over my limit, even given that some of the works are designed to sleep in overnight; but this review of the book (in French) describes the project as a 12 day walking route, which is more my pace. And it's a work in progress, so who knows?

(There's a new edition of the book, too.)

An earlier article, which seems to have vanished without trace, described more familiar territory - to me, at any rate, if not to the author, who managed to find herself walking in the Cévennes without ever having heard of the region, even through the intermediary of Robert Louis Stevenson. But the article was illustrated with a very appealing view of Villefort, nestled among the trees along the edge of its lake - not only is the world full of new places to visit, there are familiar regions to revisit, too.

Comments

[sovay]

even given that some of the works are designed to sleep in overnight

That's cool.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though? The text article had a lovely description of waking through the night and seeing the sculpture change with the light and the different angle of vision.