60° Sud :
This is a very "sea inspired" work. I keep a
close look at any Round the World sailing attempts to win
the Jules Verne's Trophy or the Oryx Quest and especially
those of Olivier de Kersauzon's. I tried to represent its
description of sea and weather conditions by 60° South,
inthe Pacific Ocean before crossing the Horn's. A place where
the sea merely tolerates the human intrusion : a deeply terrifiyng
mix between profound darkness and light, mortal peril and
awesome beauty… |