Clement Davenel
I started my day meeting with Clement in his Atelier. He is from the south of France. He lives in a National Park in an ancient house he renovated. He believes in the power of the shaped support and a surface made from unique materials such as aluminum which has reflective properties. I went back to my Atelier and made a few sketches and collages. At 3 pm, Baptiste Rabichon, one of the curators, from the Cite visited my studio. He liked the flower series. He encouraged me to make more which was the push I needed. I went for a walk in the first real rain since I arrived in Paris a month ago. I went to the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris dating back to the 1600s to take a picture from the angle Monet and Renoir painted it. I examined the statue of Louis IV which was in their paintings. I stumbled across the Place Dauphine, a small courtyard surrounded by cafes and restaurants. I sat and had a cappuccino. By this time the rain had stopped and the sky was blue. There was a blockade at the end of the courtyard and I chose to walk around it along the Seine but ran into another blockade as I tried to get back on the street. As I was walking back to the Pont Neuf I ran into a group of accounting students attending school in France who earlier in the daycfinished their exams and were celebrating. They were from Morocco and Tunisia and we had fun sharing stories.
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