In homage to Horace ARCAND, living in Deschambault, a boat pilot on « The large River » and Denys ARCAND’ father. Denys ARCAND is a canadian filmaker (  Le déclin de l’empire américain, 1986 ; les invasions barbares, 2000 ; L’âge des ténèbres, 2007 )

BIG  SCREEN

It’s here on Lauzon Cape ….

At first a place: DESCHAMBAULT. Then a material coming from the history of this place: linen meters. At last a space: the bank of a river, but not just any river, Saint-Laurent River.

And then the challenge of an artistic work: to feel, to think intensely about this place, to finalise its presentation to make it visible.

A kind of stage: a large curtain, in full sail widely opened to the River to remind us the solemnity of this landscape and its insistent call for this one who is going along.

And then a theater armchair to favour our glance and to ponder over our recurring blindness that obliterates our desires of dream and our desires to grasp the world; that makes almost forget the essential: the beauty of this River, there, within glance reach.

N.V. for  F.M. july 2007