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Silarsuaq sikullu kisimi naagalavoq
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, Travel with tags Agent Orange, Arctic, baby Trump, colonialism, Denmark, EU, European Union, Greenland, Greenlandic language, imperialism, Inuits, Kalaallit Nunaat, missionaries, North, Roman Catholic Church, self-governance, Thule culture on January 28, 2025 by xi'an
nous, laminaire
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Aimé Césaire, Antilles, colonialism, Fondation Clément, French colonial empire, French literature, Habitation Clément, Laminaria, mangroves, Martinique, mornes, picture exhibit, poem, rum, sea weed on December 1, 2023 by xi'an
A chance occurrence of a superb exhibit during our trip to Martinique last month,
namely a photograph exhibit at the Foundation Clément (funded by the Clément rum factory!) around some poems of Aimé Césaire, the most famous Martinique writer from his book Moi, laminaire, which I had not seen before, but found fabulous, by the intricate and unusual constructions around rare words, while (re)creating a landscape of sorts,
including the laminaria, a brown seaweed growing to large lengths, appearing in the last line of the final poem in this post (if not the book),
which made the selected photographs from three artists highly pertinent, with three highly different artists, Juliette Agnel, Nicolas Derné, Xuebing Du, whose Martinique nature landscape renderings suited very well Césaire’s universe,
with the additional perk of a two-hour presentation by the exhibit commissioner, Colette Césaire, a charismatic speaker and (not so incidentally) the grand-daughter of the national poet (and influential politician).
