Bonjour tout le monde! We’re back!! After a long and uneventful journey from Blighty, we arrived at the Chateau de Sacy today. Ah, home sweet home. But sacre bleu! Another artist had taken up residency in our abode. The sheer audacity of some people! We couldn’t even unpack our groceries. Outwardly, we were very gracious, whilst inwardly we were distraught. It turns out she’s actually very lovely and invited us in for a cup of tea before we scuttled off down the corridor to our bedroom.
There is an overlap of artists staying at the chateau as Hermine thought we would all like to celebrate the Bastille Day celebrations, which consisted of a tiny tractor blaring out La Macarena whilst every soul in the village trudged behind swinging a lantern. The tractor also pumped out various English language songs with lyrics they obviously didn’t realise were quite so filthy (lay down girl, let me push it up, push it up). This was followed by extraordinarily over the top fireworks where it seemed they were literally recreating the storming of the Bastille. Sacy was lit up like a Christmas tree!
Whatever happened today we would still have been smiling as en route we received an email from the amazing writer Tom Jeffreys with the text he has written for our exhibition catalogue. He has got us so spot on that we actually wept with happiness. Now all we have to do is produce some work that lives up to the billing. BRING – IT – ON!
