A couple of the students were wandering around Lacoste a few days ago and discovered this tiny little village built into and on the wall of the path that leads to our “skype lab”. And today I got to go see it for myself, and as you can see I took some pictures. It has been dubbed it the “fairy village” (I should find out what that would be in French) and it’s quite a remarkable, cute little find. And I am sure that there will be a few sketches of it in a lot of us SEQA kids sketchbooks, along with doodles of the fairies that we have decided live there.
I guess that Jen asked Professor Gobel, our wonderful Treasures of Provence professor, if she could write one of her papers about it, and as a result he explained to her what it really was and where it came from. Apparently, the students at the Lacoste Art School that used to be here (before SCAD came in and decided that they wanted to buy it from them) started it years ago and had the school not been taken over, students from each preceding year were to add to the village. Which frankly I think is a really fun idea.
I’m curious if they would allow us to add to it, or if it’s something that they would rather let be as a way to remember the school that used to reside here.
While we are talking about somewhat magical little places that we’ve all discovered here, there is a garden, which we do have access to, that the locals and residents call the “Secret Garden”. It actually kind of hard to get into cause you have to stick your fingers between the door and the wall and unhook a latch on the inside before you can enter. And because it is still fairly chilly out and most of us are wearing gloves, it’s hard to actually manage to unhook the latch.
Anyway, there are these really cool huts made of vines that were sculptures that a visiting artist built. What’s cool is that these things were only supposed to last about 6 months, but as you can see from the photos there are still two standing (there were originally four, but they removed two of them.) Now I’m not entirely sure how long they have been here, but it’s definitely been longer than six months.
I can’t wait till we can sit in the garden (without worry of freezing our butts off in the snow) and draw, cause it has a really nice view. Though really, most places in the village do, but still, it’s a fun place to be. I assume there are flowers that will bloom when it starts getting warmer up there, considering garden is in the name. Maybe they actually have a veggi garden in there during the spring and summer. Who knows?
A couple of the students were wandering around Lacoste a few days ago and discovered this tiny little village built into and on the wall of the path that leads to our “skype lab”. And today I got to go see it for myself, and as you can see I took some pictures. It has been dubbed it the “fairy village” (I should find out what that would be in French) and it’s quite a remarkable, cute little find. And I am sure that there will be a few sketches of it in a lot of us SEQA kids sketchbooks, along with doodles of the fairies that we have decided live there.
I guess that Jen asked Professor Gobel, our wonderful Treasures of Provence professor, if she could write one of her papers about it, and as a result he explained to her what it really was and where it came from. Apparently, the students at the Lacoste Art School that used to be here (before SCAD came in and decided that they wanted to buy it from them) started it years ago and had the school not been taken over, students from each preceding year were to add to the village. Which frankly I think is a really fun idea.
I’m curious if they would allow us to add to it, or if it’s something that they would rather let be as a way to remember the school that used to reside here.
While we are talking about somewhat magical little places that we’ve all discovered here, there is a garden, which we do have access to, that the locals and residents call the “Secret Garden”. It actually kind of hard to get into cause you have to stick your fingers between the door and the wall and unhook a latch on the inside before you can enter. And because it is still fairly chilly out and most of us are wearing gloves, it’s hard to actually manage to unhook the latch.
Anyway, there are these really cool huts made of vines that were sculptures that a visiting artist built. What’s cool is that these things were only supposed to last about 6 months, but as you can see from the photos there are still two standing (there were originally four, but they removed two of them.) Now I’m not entirely sure how long they have been here, but it’s definitely been longer than six months.
I can’t wait till we can sit in the garden (without worry of freezing our butts off in the snow) and draw, cause it has a really nice view. Though really, most places in the village do, but still, it’s a fun place to be. I assume there are flowers that will bloom when it starts getting warmer up there, considering garden is in the name. Maybe they actually have a veggi garden in there during the spring and summer. Who knows?
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