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Van Gogh & The Dead in Arles, France
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July 29, 2011 |
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It's late October, but the sun beats down on my bare head with the ferocity of an August heat wave. I stand at the entrance of Les Alyscamps, Elisii Campi, the Elysian Fields. It is the final resting place of Roman dead in Arles in the South of France. A cloying floral scent weighs heavily in my throat, the scent of thousands of funerals over thousands of years. Tall straight trees line the walkway like sentinels. Or prison bars. I'm alone at the gates to the great necropolis and I'm in the open air, but still I feel suffocated.
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Auvers sur Oise: The Original Impressionist Landscape
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April 10, 2007 |
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I had an uncanny sense of deja vu when I first laid eyes on Auvers sur Oise thus I could not figure out why it breathed familiarity. I then realized I had been entranced before by much of the scenery, which hung on the walls of major museums and was printed in art history books.
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