#mannekin

Bernard Faucon

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“There are images of departure – train trips to the holiday lands; images of sharing – picked fruit, a comfortable raincoat; and there are many images of children at play. Faucon’s children play on the earth, in the sky, in the water and with fire, for these are elemental not sentimental childhood dreams.Into these dreams of fantastical youth, real boys enter slowly one by one hidden within the crowd of mannequins. There is a real boy sitting on the edge of a busy swimming pool; lying in the surf of the Camargue; caught in a fishing net; a curled infant naked and asleep in a light shafted barn or railway carriage where a boy mannequin looks on and holds a set of keys. A crowd of happy infant dolls look on as a team of young filmmakers shoot a love scene in the hay.

There are hints of the divine in many of the photographs, and several scenes of pagan and Christian ritual – a Sunday-suited boy outside the church of his first communion; a crucifixion; a depiction of 'Tartitius’. The boy who became a Saint after being slaughtered for protecting the Sacrament, is here kneeling, praying and bleeding on a hilltop littered with broken mirrors, and watched by a crowd fortified with wine and armed with a rifle. The boy is real. The crowd are mannequins. It became Faucon’s key image.

So I know I haven’t been active as of late, but it was for this!

Mannekin

I finally made a comic and you can support it here!