Making the world a better place by their example. Moments
shared with a few wise Homo sapiens.
« Everything works out in the end, but not always for the
best » Alfred Capus, journalist and philosopher
Archaeology of a living artist’s studio...
Do you have to be dead to make a name for yourself? Do you have to be a rusty old skeleton before people start taking an interest in you?
Gaëlle Chancerel’s answer to that question was « most certainly not! » when she plunged headlong into the prodigious mingle-mangle of Juan Frutos’s studio during her long Caribbean stay not far from the Mexican artist’s coastal home.
The results of her painstaking, archaeology-style exploration have been published in a beautiful book revealing in minute detail the artist’s imaginative world. Gaëlle Chancerel now works in the Périgord; Juan Frutos’s art is presently on show at La Visitation in Périgueux.
Warming to the idea
It takes thirty years for a tree to grow. Trees in full growth absorb the carbon
dioxide given off by burning wood. A pollution-free cycle, easy to master, which
offers a decent and clean way of getting out of the oil crisis, using wood energy
to power heating devices. Less of a bother than logs, wood granules – like graded
wood shavings which are called “plaquettes” – can easily be used with press-button
heating systems. Discover the pioneering work done in Dordogne by the farmers at
the GRA.SA.SA., a cooperative that has been established in Ste Sabine Born since
1969.
