Les Moissons
With the project Il n’a pas plu pour les moissons! we wanted to reinterpret the straw bales - sort of "totem" in our landscape and anchored in the collective memory. These objects mark our french countryside. It’s a territory marker, here a row of straw bales - here a rural landscape. The straw bales also appears as a time marker, it identifies a season: the beginning of the summer, when the harvest of the wheat begins. And to finish, its also an element anchored in the history of the site : Les Renaudières, a former farmhouse in brittany.
Landscape Mutations
The transformation of natural landscapes is linked to the evolution of agriculture and the work of the earth by men. At the same time, urban sprawl phenomena have accompanied these landscape changes. The site of Les Renaudières is an example of these transformations with two different gestures. The first: clear the ground, the second: to live on-site. Our project aims to illustrate these two phenomena - then use the bale of straw has to evoke the first action of this mutation, to make it liveable illustrates the second gesture.
Il n’a pas plu pour les moissons! could illustrate the testimony of a carquefolien farmer who was able to harvest his wheat, thresh his straw, and by extension make a transformation of the landscape.
