paris and i ~ 'young loved & beautiful
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8/8/2019 Paris and I ~ 'Young Loved & Beautiful'
1/1 2010 Sab Will / Paris Set Me Free / Paris and I
Friday, 27 August 2010
Probably the most incongruous and perhaps the most poignantly celebratory of allParisian graves must be this giant mosaic cat hiding amongst the sombre greytombstones in the Montparnasse Cemetary.
Labelled simply 'Ricardo', it's by sculptor Niki de Saint-Phalle for her assistant andcollaborator, and is accompanied by a little plaque which says 'Pour notre grandami mort trop tt, jeune, aim et beau'(For our great friend [who] died too soon;young, beloved and beautiful'.
Seeing such a moving and unconventional monument triggered two thoughts in myhead. The first was 'Isn't Paris great that you can find something so amazing insuch an unexpected place?'
And the second was 'Maybe i should get started on my own monument [somethingto do with squares or cubes, no doubt] before it's too late'.
Walks around graveyards tend to get you thinking in strange ways, don't you find?
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