Andreas Jaeggi: "The Summer of '76" 20 Drawings Pencil on Paper 12" x 17" / 17" x 12" 1976
It is nothing out of the ordinary, really: I stand in the middle of life and all of a sudden, I'm overcome by the feeling of having missed something. The memory of a summer long ago sweeps through my thoughts. It was a trip through France in 1976, from Paris to Brugo Haute in the Dordogne province and then on to Seignosse Le Penin in the Landes province at the Atlantic Ocean. The individual objects, views and details represented in these drawings seem less important to me than the general emotion of a clear reflection of my surroundings at that time. At the beginning of my life many paths were open to me and I had the overwhelmingly positive sensation to be able to choose, to go a way decided by myself. Which might be true. By now, one of these paths has been taken. Was it the right one? A futile question. More important to me is remembering the exact moment of standing before this splitting of ways: the feeling of hope for something not yet fulfilled is the foundation of any feeling of happiness, as tiny as this might be.
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