AN ODD WAY OF LEARNING........
Sometimes when I have been to an exhibition, I jump onto the computer enthusiastically with ideas spinning around in my mind. Other times, there are questions to be answered and although the chapter is written over and over again in my head, it takes much longer to put it down in writing. Should it be said «typing»? Val de Grace from my window this afternoon.... For years, since perhaps my childhood I have looked out of a window in our flat. Once upon a time my desk was at this window and as a student perhaps the interest was more in studying rather than a curiosity of what were the historical monuments in front of my eyes. Around 17, my Mother informed me «oh that building is the Val de Grace and it’s chapel" This meant nothing. Chapels and churches of any kind where not high on my list of Parisian discoveries. The years go by. I learnt later that the Val de Grace is the military hospital built in the 1970s and completed in 1979.The year I arrived back in Paris for good