Monday, April 6, 2015

FRENCH
report
#1
L'AQUITAINE

It was an inauspicious beginning
misadventures, wrong turns, mysteries, and mayhem, awaited around even seemingly innocent turns in the road
my five week voyage in 
FRANCE
beginning.....back in BIARRITZ
Cool Day Chez Catou
It was brief, my COOL day, 
I should have been forewarned when I left my coat, not once, but TWICE while boarding the plane, on my way to Biarritz....and when I arrived in the RAIN, again, it felt as though I had never left, 
BUT 
things were not the same at all
 and all the omens were there....I just didn't recognize them

first  
though

a COOL short film
about my five week artist residency

Winter 2014
at BoiSakré productions in Biarritz France 


It seemed to be status quo in the Pays Basque
the fromage,
the Grand Plage with plow
croissants
 Café Mokafina 
Les Halles 
the chiens


But much as they seem the same, they're not, or you're not
What was I expecting anyway?
of course, another super spree of painting

I was happy to be back but rudderless, washing up and vanishing on shore like all those waves I'd painted the year before
 besides that, it was 
RAINING
and gloomy
SO
with my paints and me languishing I was wondering....
can you ever go back??  

UNTIL
the
 SUN 
came out,
and the
   COOL  
 returned

I went back to observing

 Sundays aux Halles
where the food is an excuse for getting out, looking good 
and gossiping about everyone else
Le Grand Spectacle Chaque Dimanche Aux Halles
then the `' "``rains ""``/'`'''returned
A L A S
but still it's better than snow 

RECETTE  
for all the  
COOL DAYS

COOL DAY by Catherine Guillaud
PETIT DEJEUNER
un grand crème
et
un croissant BEURRE
 DEJEUNER  
CHEESE
Saint Félicien Tentacion
ou
Pigouille lait cru
ou
 Laruns de Pyrénées
ou
Vache du pays
 ou 
Laguiole 

 avec

Jambon de Bayonne
ou
Txirula au piment d'Espelette
et
 une baguette
et bien sûr
a glass or two of
Marsanne, Louis Cheze
ENSUITE:
adventures on the road 
in 
PETIT
the "smart" experience
to be continued......