Outside St Sulpice today I enjoyed these sculptures, inspired by books and stories:
Icare (Icarus), by Robert Aupetit
Le Corbeau et le Reynard (The Crow and the Fox), by Florence de Ponthaud-Neyrat
'Le grand livre du temps' (The big book of time) by NISA
('Monocycle', Ilio Signore)
It seemed to me that all these sculptures have an element of the precarious in them: Icarus launching towards the dim November sun, the fox and crow sketched in driftwood, the pages in the book fragmenting, and this unicyclist wildly wheeling around. But that fragility is combined with humour, lightness, and joy of living.
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