Sometimes, at the end of a day of walking and photographing, one discovers that images that were not meant to be part of a thematic series and seemed to share only geographical and temporal proximity, belong together in a more profound way.
These four photos, when put together, seem to decline each its own definition of entrapment (physical, metaphorical). Capturing them photographically might have been a way of breaking the spell.
This might be a humble photographic echo to Pascal’s thought: “Par l’espace, l’univers me comprend et m’engloutit comme un point; par la pensée, je le comprends.”
Château de Chamarande
Domaine de Chamarande
Toile d’araignée sur les bords de la rivière d’Étampes
Mud bubbles
Odds and Lens 
Tiles and beams
Straight lines
Bracing floors walls ceilings
Rules and rulers
Bounding spaces
Casting contrasts
But it is suppler
This warp and weft
Upon closer reflection
Checkerboards dissolve hazy
And shatter like mirrors
While muddy dots
Hide jewels thoughts
Bubbling primordial
Uncertain aspiring ready
To be caught
In a Vedic god’s net
Infinitely linking
Chamarande say the antiquarians
Is formed from the Gaulish
Cama randa
Chemin limite
But there are no boundaries
Only paths
And bridges in the distance
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