l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
A place for a myriad of retreats
Baie de Somme
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
“Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies.”
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
The Somme bay holds the strongest tidal ranges on the European coast, akin to Mont-Saint-Michel.
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
At low tide the house is surrounded by a desert landscape.
At high tide the house has the feel of a lighthouse on an island.
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
In becoming a part of this larger rhythm of tides and shifting landscape, we are guided into a revelatory, almost oracular quality of the land.
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
Like a large vessel the bay is filled and emptied,
meticulously choreographed by the waxing and waning moon.
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
L’Heure Bleue is a place devoted to the cycles
of renewal,
creation and transformation.
l’Heure Bleue