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LE FIGARO. – How do you feel when you encounter endless expanses of snow?

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Sylvain TESON. – This brings me back to my first violent experiences traveling in Siberia. Snow adds to the impression of infinity. The horizon not only seems unreachable, but suddenly it becomes invisible. “After the white plain, another white plain,” as Hugo sees it Punishments. So only patience (more than violent effort and more than speed) can overcome distances. Nomads know this. Everything disappears in the snow, hopes and ambitions, regrets and memories. We are moving forward. We forget. We are slipping. It is assumed. We will get there one day.

Like a feeling of horizontal vertigo.

Yeah, kind of dizzy. The combination of effort and lack of relief in the snow creates a feeling of time disappearing. Dilation of space and elimination of time. it’s a living coma. We no longer have a blueprint or memory…

Source: Le Figaro

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