Art & Psy

Beneath the municipal blancstock laid in a single thin coat, a wall in Concarneau lets three letters rise back through: C H E. Not an effigy, not the stature of a hero, but a simple word — or rather its skeleton.

During the systematic photographic survey, a child walking past with her parents spontaneously identified the configuration: ‘Oh Mum, it looks like my bear!’ This reaction constitutes the first orally documented on-site interpretation. I had neither seen nor read this figure before the child named it.