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the region of the imagination. He writes: “Le immobile.” The blue sky has by definition
bleu est l’obscurité devenant visible.” Vision the movement of an awakening. Vision of the
comes to being instantly, letting it appear to the blue sky is paradoxical, it seems as if it is the
eye, but at the same time it erases the borders space where there is nothing more to imagine,
between night and day, between obscurity and but when the airy imagination is animated the
diaphaneity, in a dynamic of “awakening.” This background becomes active. In its most dreamy
is the phenomenology of vision, the movement and dynamic form, the imagination finds there
of coming to being of the visible according the elements of a Gestalttheorie at work to
to Bachelard. The blue sky is by excellence a reveal the universe. As Bachelard says, “The
permanent vision of the dawn – the break of clouds help us to dream of transformation.”
day. “Le ciel bleu est une aurore permanente.” The clouds are the day’s zoomorphism as the
constellations are the night’s zoomorphism.
Summer clouds is in that respect this vision of They are the aerial imagination of the soul of the
the dawn’s early light – the Aurora – embodied things of the world. They show how things are
allegorically by this splendid body Venus-like, constantly moving, changing, and transforming.
coming out into being from the airy and sonorous Such are Victor Hagea’s Summer Clouds – a
substance of air, tuned from the coiling shell. phantasmatic vision, permanent aurore made
Blue eyes turned back to the dreamer, indeed, out herself of airy clouds. This vision has also
she is an airy figure herself of airy imagination. much in common with Mallarmé’s Azur, as well
It is only by living this mirage of the dawn’s early as with Hölderlin’s pure and sacred air out of
hour, experiencing this permanent awakening which the seasons and weather descent. To make
(l’éveil), says Bachelard, that we can understand an image is to let image appear (donner à voir),
the paradoxical movement of an immobile come to being, where vision itself is a constant
sky. As Eluard says, “Il n’y a pas de couleur and dreamy “awakening.”
Nicoletta Isar
4th October 2008
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