Hôtel de Sens — TRAVERSING Z

the rodin museum.

invalides.

hotel de sens.

in an effort to use my limited time to the utmost, i tried to shoot photos that could also be things my characters would see. shots that gave a feel for the city as it was. which is working to some extent: i am able now to bring in more textures/colors/sounds, i’m slowly correcting my completely off sense of space (i think i was basing a lot of my spatial perceptions on coppola’s marie antoinette, for some incomprehensible reason). but i realized over the weekend that, in my effort to shoot when there were no 21st-century pedestrians, i’ve been forgetting about the people that would have been thronging the streets back then, hindering movement, seeing potentially naughty things afoot. whoops.

always, always more to do, with this book.

bad weather and too much day-job is greying out everything else. you know things are bad when you start to want to press and hang curtains. it’s all making me grumpy and grouchy and keeping me yet again from writing.

but in better news: bit the bullet and booked paris. (how many bs can i get in a sentence? if only i was setting this in brussels, or brazil, or brooklyn.) so now on to thinking about how best to utilize my brief time there. this, of course, is number one:

the hôtel de sens, one of the first paris buildings that made my little head spin with possibilites. and now home to the forney art library, bonus! my room is very close to it, the better to grovel with the forney’s staff for as much access as possible.