(Fourchette dans le lac devant l'Alimentarium à Vevey. Il y a une polémique autour de la possibilité que ça puisse être un truc permanent. C'est en tout cas préférable au Pinocchio et aux deux tas de féraille rouillé à Midi Coindet et à côté du Forum de Montreux).
Hier soir en retrant à la maison à travers le Chablais, j'ai pensé à notre perception des lieux. Quand on traverse un endroit que l'on connaît, il y a toute une 'topographie émotionnelle'. Comme si on avait des lunettes à rayon-x, on perçoit tout plein de choses invisibles. Chaque lieu a son lot de souvenirs associés, ou de personnes qu'on connaît.
Quand on passe dans un lieu inconnu, c'est complètement différent - on ne perçoit rien que l'étrangeté, et on voit beaucoup plus avec les yeux.
C'est drôle tout ce monde intérieur que l'on superpose sur le monde extérieur.
(Fork in the lake in front of the Alimentarium in Vevey. There is some kurfuffle here about whether to allow it to become a permanent fixture. All I can say is that it is much prettier than the 10m-high Pinocchio and the two rusty-iron sculptures at the Midi Coindet shopping center and next to the Forum de Montreux).
Driving home from the Val d'Illier yesterday, I mused a little on how we perceive places. When you drive through a place you know, there is a hidden emotional landscape that you feel. As if you had x-ray specs, you 'see' lots of invisible things. Each place has associated memories, or people who we know who live there.
It's totally different when you are in unknown territory - there the emotional landscape is flat (or a trifle uneasy if you are not a born adventurer), and you see a lot more with your physical eyes.
Funny how our internal world is superposed on the external one.
Driving home from the Val d'Illier yesterday, I mused a little on how we perceive places. When you drive through a place you know, there is a hidden emotional landscape that you feel. As if you had x-ray specs, you 'see' lots of invisible things. Each place has associated memories, or people who we know who live there.
It's totally different when you are in unknown territory - there the emotional landscape is flat (or a trifle uneasy if you are not a born adventurer), and you see a lot more with your physical eyes.
Funny how our internal world is superposed on the external one.
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