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Gilles Clément, do you know that guy? He’s not just one of France’s best garden designers, he’s one of those rare artists who change deeply the way we think about their material. His gardens are almost autonomous systems where man is more a guest than a creator. But he’s also a great writer, and that’s a surpise to me. He’s a thinker and a stylist, so you’ll delight when reading, then you’ll have something to feed your thoughts when tying a dozen bibio marci.
The book I came to talk you about is titled Traité succint de l’art involontaire. (That’s Short Treaty on Involuntary Art) The idea is that the way you look at the world can be trained to capture the beauty of certain kinds of random arrangements you’ll find where nature and mankind interact. We talk about flights, heaps, islands, erosions… So, you seee, I thought : this is the world every fisherman lives in. So better lsiten to one of the wise who teach us to look at it differently. The worse that could happen is we would get a confirmation of what we already know, that fishing is really magical only when you know how to look.