I’ve been meaning to write a little about why I find deer such a compelling theme in horror and I got a message that motivated me to put it in writing. While deer are beautiful creatures, often seen as delicate and gentle, every deer contains within its body a violent horror story of its own. We see this quote played out in every video of a deer trapped inside a house:
“Naturally, the nervous species are difficult to keep in captivity. If put into an enclosure, they are likely to panic, and either die of shock or batter themselves to death against the fence in their attempts to escape…No gazelle species has ever been domesticated.” Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
I have come to believe that deer make such good companions for horror because they hold multitudes within their frightened, panting bodies. We can project anything into their sweet, vacant eyes. They are prey, they are sacrifice, they are objects of veneration. They are symbols of innocence; they are vectors of disease. The sight of one in a sunlit meadow can calm your heart yet they will crash into your speeding car without a thought for their own life, or yours. They creatures of noble beauty; they are vessels for our worst nightmares.
Team Fiat having fun before 1978 Ronde de la Giraglia: Michèle Mouton and Françoise Conconi trying to drag Jean-Claude Andruet with the help of his co-driver Biche (Michele Espinosi)
[blurry scans stolen from this website. First pic is from a magazine issue for Tour de Corse later that year]
« Come breathe the inspiration that reasons to escape the immutable. You will see the deer with a human head talking about its size in front of our insatiable gaze. Eternalize yourself in front of the sensory nymph rotating the stars exponentially. Around his finger, globes and comets swirl in the infinity that reasons. »
Bon, n'étant pas très mobile, difficile de créer des posts avec de nouvelles photos. Je reviens donc à mon projet de présenter l'intégralité de mes photos, projet interrompu à l'année 2017. Je vais donc essayer de clore cette année 2017.
A part les deux dernières : Ramousies et sa stèle gravée...
Le reste est Liessies, elle aussi dans l'est du Nord. Dans l'église on y trouve un chasseur et une biche, un saint et son sanglier...