Prints after Polaroids SX70
102x100 cm : 5 ex / 30x31 cm : 3 ex
One day in November 2000 we made objects fly for the first time. It was on Carteret beach. Shirts, fabrics, whatever I had on hand. I photographed the scene with my Leica, made black and white prints that I rephotographed with Polaroid SX70, as in the previous series. But there, durably, I found with these suspended objects something like a language to speak of the ephemeral. To link chance and fate, lightness and gravitation / gravity in images.
In front of the lens of my M6 film, only once for each shot, the photographs on the contact sheets gave few significant results. From time to time, an image emerged that the more or less long exposure time made unexpected.
I started to make flying, sewn, armature objects, and to do air resistance tests and work on the effects of speed.
The Polaroids have put their colors on the black and white prints, which gives a veiled whole, and lets the flying object blend into the background.
The title of the series, "Just this once", is borrowed from Rilke's Ninth Elegy.