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    • Phenographies
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      • Protection or prison ?
      • Endangered species
      • Anonymous colours
      • I pile, you pile
      • Walls have ears
      • In the waiting of …
      • Need a stop
      • Two wheels with ideas
      • Not running water
      • Worlds from under
      • I enclose, you enclose
      • Send, receive
    • Just passing by
      • Which way
      • Just passing by
      • Home ports
      • Light in the countryside
      • At all times
      • Land, sea
      • Rooms with a view
      • Allowed to forbid
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Francis Teynier
Francis Teynier
  • Phenographies
  • Portfolios
    • Tribute to LANG JINGSHAN
    • Public spaces
      • Protection or prison ?
      • Endangered species
      • Anonymous colours
      • I pile, you pile
      • In the waiting of …
      • Walls have ears
      • Need a stop
      • Two wheels with ideas
      • Not running water
      • Worlds from under
      • I enclose, you enclose
      • Send, receive
    • Just passing by
      • Which way
      • Just passing by
      • Home ports
      • Light in the countryside
      • Land, sea
      • Rooms with a view
      • Allowed to forbid
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • The author
  • Contact
  • English
    • French

Phenographies


Through the ordeal of elements, let us get lost in phenomena whose unknown or abstract traits are those we did not yet discover in them.

This series was born from a personal research about an interpretation of the five elements that are wood, water, earth, metal and fire – whose plastic and variety always fascinated me.

Its also stems from the chinese philosophy in which any phenomenon in the universe results from a permanent unbalance between what these elements (Wuxing) stand for, in an unstable cycle of birth and destruction.

Hence, assuming that the universe is infinite, I tried trough photographic combinations of the elements, to create phenomena that each viewer will be able to discover with the help of his experience or of his fantasy.

In the absence, most intended, of non-ambiguous clues of scale, everyone is invited, freely and for each work, unto visual journeys somewhere between the infinitely small and infinitely big.

It does not matter, whether his vision crosses the one that originally crystallised in my own mind – it is also why I chose not to give titles to the pictures.

The inspiration finally owes a lot to the work of the Chinese master photographer Lang JingShan (1892 -1995), and especially to his landscapes built in composite photography.

The prints are made in subligraphy, in limited number, numbered and signed.

PHENOGRAPHIE_0015
PHENOGRAPHIE_0026
PHENOGRAPHIE_0008
PHENOGRAPHIE_0001
PHENOGRAPHIE_0113
PHENOGRAPHIE_0090
PHENOGRAPHIE_0167
PHENOGRAPHIE_0211
PHENOGRAPHIE_0030
PHENOGRAPHIE_0039
PHENOGRAPHIE_0082
PHENOGRAPHIE_0074
PHENOGRAPHIE_0097
PHENOGRAPHIE_0126
PHENOGRAPHIE_0180
PHENOGRAPHIE_0203
PHENOGRAPHIE_0218
PHENOGRAPHIE_0221
PHENOGRAPHIE_0220
PHENOGRAPHIE_0215
PHENOGRAPHIE_0223
PHENOGRAPHIE_0219
PHENOGRAPHIE_0222
PHENOGRAPHIE_0224
PHENOGRAPHIE_0226
PHENOGRAPHIE_0225
PHENOGRAPHIE_0227
PHENOGRAPHIE_0228
PHENOGRAPHIE_0229
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PHENOGRAPHIE_0270
PHENOGRAPHIE_0271
PHENOGRAPHIE_0272
PHENOGRAPHIE_0285
PHENOGRAPHIE_0277
PHENOGRAPHIE_0275
PHENOGRAPHIE_0284
PHENOGRAPHIE_0276
PHENOGRAPHIE_0273
ARBRES_0288_1080
PHENOGRAPHIE_0284
ARBRES_0287_1080
Une création Océan Digital - 2020