Comme moi (just like me)
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Papa : « Tell me a story, Gabriel.»Gabriel : « Dad, Mom, Eugénie, Pauline...»(personal audio record, 1988)
(Just l ike me)
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The story told here May have never happen.It’s always the same thingA story of banality.It looks like winter.
Everything is a fiction
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Christmas Eve’s sunsetIn the Dinnig roomThings look like slowBut the pale light dazzles.You may remember the atmosphereBut not the people there.
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As if Momsnd Dadnever met.
This is like the arbitrary times when you do not exist.Not yet.But you can easily imagine it.
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It looks like a succession of senseless events.
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The light looks the same everywhere out there.This is so long. Stop eating for the picture.A never ending evening.
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It is as if Mom and Dad never met.But they did.
They had a daughter named PaulineOn that day, Mom’s bed was covered by newspapers.Viet Nam war was over.
Dad drove through the streets, yealing « I am a Dad now ! ».
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They had a daughter named PaulineOn that day, Mom’s bed was covered by newspapers.Viet Nam war was over.
Dad drove through the streets, yealing « I am a Dad now ! ».
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Pauline is my oldest sister.
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She made the couple turn into a family.
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It is hard to imagine PaulineAs a little girl.The are only picturesTo make this become possible
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There were just Mom, Dad and Pauline.Dad put a swing-set inside of the apartment, Between his office and her bedroom.
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Then Eugénie was born, during November 79.
She arrived earlier than expected.Time was missing and nobody took any a picture.
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During those nights, feeding Eugénie,
Dad and her learned to know eachother
From that time, it was hard for him to sleep.
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Pictures build a memoryThat belongs to nobodyYou get the feeling that you remember moments That you never experienced.
Dad and Mom’s bedroom ;Our house,our street,Our own room...
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This period, when you to not yet existSeems to be an endless winterYou do not know whereLight,Clouds,Trees, UpAnd downCome from.
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Thus, that weird universe is not like Mom’s belly..
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Thus, that weird universe is not like Mom’s belly..
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Winter became colder.
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It began snowing, on a Tuesday MorningI do not remember.
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My world became full of people.
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Knowing the day of my birth, Dad said : « just like me ».
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It was in March.For his Birthday, Dad had a baby boy.And on that very dayEnglish mlinors ended their one-year-strike.
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From that day, and forever, Eugénie and Pauline were 5 and 9 years older than me.
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An evening Eugénie asked, if my name was Gabriel Because, fom inside Mom’s belly, i was praying : « Hail Mary...»
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On pictures, bath or baptism are not differentEach event of this life is abstract...
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You do not recognize the faces.
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Winter was ending.
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Winter’s leafs, branchs and treesWere still burningIn the garden.
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So we went outside.
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Pictures : Gabriel Coutagne and famiy picturesLayout and Postproduction : Gabriel CoutagneTexts : Gabriel CoutagneTranslation : Gabriel CoutagnePrinted in April 2011
Originally edited in June 2010 at ENSLL (French National School for Photgraphy, Film and Sound), Paris, France.
© Gabriel Coutagne 2011
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