l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
A place for solitary and 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
With the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Somme holds the strongest tidal ranges on the European coast.
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
Like a large vessel she is being filled and emptied, meticulously choreographed by the waxing and waning moon.
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, and almost oracular quality of the land.
l’Heure Bleue
House of Changes
L’Heure Bleue is a place devoted to the cycles of renewal, creation and transformation.
l’Heure Bleue