Residual Landscapes - Ground Signals

Ground Signals was photographed during the winter of 2015 in Sucy-en-Brie, at a time when I was leaving both my job and the town for Paris. I kept returning to the same open field, walking through it as the season slowly changed. The landscape offered no dramatic event, only subtle marks left by weather, machinery and time.

Photographing became a way of observing that period without trying to explain it. Furrows, tracks and scattered forms gradually echoed an inner state that remained difficult to put into words. The images stay rooted in the physical reality of the place, while allowing the landscape to carry the quiet tension of transition, uncertainty and departure.

Developed within the Unclearpicture collaboration with writer Michel Maurel

Winter field in Sucy-en-Brie marked by parallel furrows and muted earth tones.
Dark tracks crossing an open field beneath a pale winter sky in Sucy-en-Brie.
Lines left by agricultural machinery shaping the surface of a quiet winter field.
Scattered plant remains and compressed soil forming subtle signals across the ground.
Low winter light revealing ridges, tracks and textures in a field near Paris.
Open field divided by furrows, with bare trees and a distant horizon.
Curving vehicle tracks interrupting the regular lines of cultivated ground.
Close view of earth, stubble and weathered marks in the Ground Signals series.
Flattened vegetation and muddy traces recording movement across the winter landscape.
Geometric bands of soil extending toward the edge of the field in Sucy-en-Brie.
Quiet agricultural landscape shaped by weather, machinery and seasonal change.
Intersecting furrows and tracks creating an abstract pattern across the earth.
Winter ground with sparse vegetation and faint signs of recent passage.
Final view across the open field, where subtle surface marks suggest transition and departure.
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