TERRE OCÉANE

Writer: Daniel Danis

Artist: Susan Coolen

Under the editorial direction of France Choinière
Text in French
2003, 116 pages, $25.20, ISBN: 978-2-922135-18-3

In a story in monologue form featuring three generations of men - a ten-year-old boy, his father, and the father's uncle - Daniel Danis explores life's final moments and reveals it in a way other than through the illusion of activity. The young boy dies, and it is the old man who accompanies him to his ineluctable destiny. This quest is guided by the voice of Antoine, the father, who at the same time describes his son's life and recounts the tortured path of his doubts, desires, and sorrows. Superimposed on this narrative are the photographs of Susan Coolen, which show almost primary objects and materials: bones, rocks, ice, etc. Even as they refer to the presentational paradigms of the natural history museum, Coolen's photographs possess a completely surrealist atmosphere: the space in which the objects are seen is ambiguous and their position is unusual and punctuated by strong contrasts between light and shadow.

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