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Still Waters, 2023

by Jef Bourgeau

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Jef Bourgeau

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Jef Bourgeau

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On The Hunt by Jef Bourgeau

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Jef Bourgeau

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Winter Wonderlands

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ARTIST: Jef Bourgeau

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Jef Bourgeau. American, b.1950. The Narrows. 2023

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‘James River Trail (Blue Ridge)’. Jef Bourgeau. 2023. :: (Guillaume Gris)

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« What is happiness? The opposite of unhappiness.

What is unhappiness? The feeling that no joy is immediately possible.

You wake up in the morning and joy isn’t there, and you know it isn’t going to come, at any point during the day, because for joy to come to you today, something essential would have to change—if this person weren’t dead, if I weren’t ill, if I weren’t stuck with these material or social difficulties…

Happiness is the opposite: when nothing crucial stands between you and joy today. Not that joy will be there at all times, but you know it to be immediately possible, within reach of your hands, or mind, or heart. You wake up in the morning: joy is present or it is not, but you know that it might appear, that some moments of your day might produce it; then it will disappear, and will return later, with this ease, this spontaneity, this buoyancy that make life so pleasant.

These back-and-forths, these oscillations, these flickerings of joy, are the real substance of happiness. Of course happiness isn’t constant joy (that’s felicity), or eternal joy (that’s beatitude); happiness is any period of time during which joy feels immediately possible. That we talk of possibility implies that happiness is, in part, a product of our imagination. So what? These happy imaginings are part of life; happiness is always arguable, fleeting, relative: we are approximately happy, and that is called happiness. Felicity is impossible. Beatitude is exceptional. Unhappiness is not definitive. What is left is daily life, with its fragile oscillations, with its real or possible joys. »

— André Comte-Sponville, preface to Philippe Danino’s Le Bonheur [exhaled-spirals]

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The Narrows

Jef Bourgeau (American, b.1950)

"The Narrows," 2023

An 18x18 inch archival pigment print on 24x24 inch coldpress watercolor paper

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Jef Bourgeau

The Narrows

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Dune Hill lighthouse, the narrows, James river, still life. by Jef Bourgeau.

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