Tuesday, October 27, 2009

absence du tronc

a soft-focus study in pale greys and stone, the faintest traces of a cross and lettering on the wall...
a creamy ray of light accuses the missing donation box...as if the very spirit of a sacred place has evaporated...
in this large and hollow space of the chapel of the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, reverberating silence drifts along with the revelatory light and I cross paths with the shadows of unquestioning statues...

2 comments:

PeterParis said...

At least I hope it disappeared in an honest way!

Owen said...

I'm thinking it was stolen, for a few euros to pay for a bottle of cheap wine... or worse...