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Carnet II

Marc Fichou

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“My life, like my work, boils down to a collage of memories, of things that I have physically and mentally accumulated over the years, a trajectory not very clear. I try to glue the pieces back together, to discover/rediscover a form at once new and familiar, as we can looking at clouds or at a Rorschach test. At the same time, I try to repair my vision of the world, to ‘overcome the disenchantment of the world.’ Assembling hopes and deceptions, I obtain the emergence of a form that is somehow recognizable and that yet I cannot describe. I sense what is in my gut, but cannot really seize it, it frightens me. Are we not always afraid of what we cannot see, but also of what we glimpse? It seems to me absurd to accept being like the ant (about which I spoke in Carnet I), which attends to its business without knowing why it does so. I am thirsty for meaning...there is love, truth, beauty, justice…but at the same time, all my efforts to resolve this enigma of meaning bring me back to the hypothesis of being an ant....One rediscovers in science this infinite search for a meaning which, alas, recedes from us the more we approach it: multiverses, holographic universes, black holes, great attractors, the expanding universe…One does the same with philosophy and religion.

 

“I think we have no other choice but to act according to our nature, to no longer question the past or the future, to stay focused on acting without reasons, like the insect…of course, also in the hope that evolution has prepared us for something higher.”

                                                                  — Marc Fichou

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