The lodges of the vine: where our roots hide.

In this sweet oration that Michel Zoladz sings for us, he shows us the hidden part of our landscapes. With his camera, a stubborn craftsman of black and white that reveals light, he celebrates the useless with magnificence.

Modernity, with its corollaries of profitability, speed, and efficiency, wanted to simplify everything to “build” practical and functional landscapes. The vineyard cabins are the opposite of this race towards the abyss, vigilant testimony to a time when man lived in harmony with nature, in humility.

The cabins not only look “good” in the landscape, they are the stubborn revealer of the deep meaning of our relationship to creation. As we reap the deadly fruits of modernity in full bloom, may this lucid and poetic meditation from Michel help us to return to the path of the vineyards and to contemplate, in the gentleness of the slopes of Menetou-Salon, these sentinels of another possibility.