Photo Essays

Aix-en-Provence, France en Juillet

Aix-en-Provence, France en Juillet Summer has arrived! Clear, hot sunny days, colbalt blue skies, cigales (cicadas) doing their wall-of-noise sound, à la Phil Spectre. Tourists descending like locusts, devouring all the pleasures in sight, determined to enjoy themselves at all costs. Sculpture in Aix No. 1/ ©2010 Robert D. Hale. Provence is abuzz with activity. …

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Aix-en-Provence, France en Juin

Plasticiens. What does this word mean to you? Give up? Well, I almost did. When I would see the word printed at various exhibitions around town, used to describe the genre of the artist, I just couldn’t get the reference. I mistakenly thought it referred to an artist who worked in plastic, yet I could discern no plastic in their pieces. I persisted in my quest to solve this ancient riddle, and after questioning different artists, I got it.