take my picture

At one level, this video-poem is a journey/derive through a market which was filmed one morning at Piegut in SW France. The frames switch between monochrome and colour; a metaphor for finding and losing; living and parting. It also references and has the pace of the poem "losing you", by the filmmaker. This glimpse of what might be best described as our existential death is followed by lines from John Donne, which seems to make the film complete.

losing you

from darkness into

shade and light

we met where

boundaries merge

to negative space

among the familiar

inevitabilities dwell here

pass as rhythm

greeting, crossing

touching, parting

processional order

ordained and fleeting

echoes of impossibility

shadows we are

attracting shadow

colouring days

take my picture

losing you is like losing you