frequently in Brittany I am transfixed by sightings that are so timelessly resonant of a deeper meaning I am always hopeful to have captured it somehow on my tiny camera...and going over the images later, I come across ones that manage to vibrate more than I had envisioned...
the breton flag "Gwenn ha Du" waves proudly from every flag pole, black and white bands representing the former "pays" or bishoprics of Upper and Lower Brittany, and dotted by the heraldic black ermines flashing in the hallowed skies...
the suggestive stillness of the tops of just a few crosses barely rising above the wall of a small cemetary at high noon...
the hard point of a modernist church spire pierces into atmospheric holiness, its pink and white celtic motifs softening the angular edges...
on the outside wall of a school, the pale squiggle patterns left behind from the removal of old creeping vines...nervous traces of life that once was and now only the most evocative of ghostly remains of a previous florescent exuberance...
one day I was led to a secret church in a secluded hameau...the doors were opened but within it nothing seemed to have been touched for decades...antique light glazed over sacred objects, cobwebs bound crucifixes in place on the dusty altar, and in a small room off to the side, a niche held ex-votos of such raw poignancy, such primal supplication that it was hard to believe such genuflectively felt potency still existed at all...
Excellent page I only wish there was a way to read and understand the french writing . Fantastic photos and works of art . I tried to link up or subscribe but not totally sure it went through. All the best to your work and can't wait to see if any new post come about . I was redirected through PARIGIGI'S PAGES to this fine excellent page. It is so nice to stumble across some real and beautiful things out of the blue . I have always been facinated by the old world charm and grace of France . Sincerely "Dirtdog"
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