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Silence
There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore- (...)
Edgar Allan Poe
Le Timonier de la Chimere is part of an ongoing project concerned with the blurred boundaries between fiction and reality, tales and collective memory. This particular image draws from the shipwreck of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's polar expedition vessel the "Pourquoi Pas?" which sank near Reykjavik in 1936 with only one survivor out of the forty crew members.