Highly influenced by these letters, I decided to become an artist. Artist, okay yes! but how? Of course, the problems I first envisaged were extremely classic: how to depict the countryside around me? How to depict the shadow of a tree? How to depict the shadow of a tree in a field filled with light? And then, how to depict the shadow of a tree in a field filled with light with the sky reflecting the water which printed backwards colours the field like a wall can impress a face? I gave up.

How to depict a sunrise? How to depict a sunrise and its pure blue printed freshness? How to depict a sunrise and its pure blue printed freshness with the piercing song of the birds in flight the deep green of the hedges circling high in spirals ff-fff?

How to depict the clear line of the water and the line of the grass? How to depict the clear line of the water and the line of the waving breathing grass with its articulated filaments? How to depict the clear line of the water and the line of the waving breathing grass with its articulated filaments?

How to depict the line of the grass in the fast icy fast-flowing current? How to depict the clear line of the water and the line of the waving breathing grass with its articulated filaments in the fast icy fast-flowing current with the reflection of the pure blue printed sky with the piercing song of the birds in flight the deep green of the hedges circling high in spirals ff-fff?

Olivier Cadiot
Excerpt from Futur, ancien, fugitif, P.O.L, 1993