As soon as it happened, he took a train heading south he speaks to me now on his mobile phone, after searching for a shelter from the wind blowing over the high plateaus of the Auvergne region of France. When I talk to Villette, the quarantine has just lifted from Paris, where he lives. Dreams in which we imagine what we might become. It looks almost too real to believe-and in that heightened awareness of reality, we enter a state of dreams.ĭreams of the past, of the future, encountered through a serendipitous but fleeting present moment, a quick-moving beam of light. Villette’s photographs capture place and time in precise detail, with a clarity that makes the moment as vivid and present as if we are standing there ourselves.
“A ruin is not something finished,” he says. Such places are points of contact with the past and, according to photographer Aurélien Villette, our windows into the future. Spirits of the original builders flit through the architecture as it succumbs to ever insistent nature. What used to be a stone portal is cupped in tree roots that echo its gothic shape. A glass conservatory shatters as the plants once grown inside reach for the manor house just beyond the windows.
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