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camera
Canon EOS 500D
Latitude
50.848143000087
Longitude
4.349369
Picture date
01-06-2018 17:32:20
              
    

After our initial observation of the “Cueille ta vie” stencil earlier that day, we went back to the magazine box to see what had happened to it. And (not) to our surprise, a lady was hanging one of her own posters there where earlier the “Cueille ta vie” stencil had been hanging. Although the woman had “taken the place” of someone else (she put her poster on exactly the same space where another one was), she did have the politeness of taking off the “Cueille ta vie” stencil and putting it beneath. This small action could be read as a form of analog blogging ! A newer post arrives, an older one slides downward. Notice in this that the “poor” sticky tape of the “Cueille ta vie” stencil now actually seemed to come in handy : the stencil was easy to detach and re-attach. Although that was perhaps too optimistic : a couple of minutes later, the stencil was already starting to fall off. A problem that the lady and her poster would not have, given the fact that she used quite some tape to attach her poster to the magazine box. That being said, on an aesthetic level, and even on a communication level, it does make that the situational frame created through the plexiglass panel is less visible (and so less able to ‘work’ to stage and frame the poster). As for the content of her poster, it showed an invitation to an exhibition of the lady (who was actually an artist, a painter). The poster contained two of her paintings, with the heading of “Les pinceaux de la liberté”. In the text below we could read that it was about art as a form of therapy in dealing with the trauma of war (in this case the Vietnam war).