Tristan Mottier - Veilleur de nuit

Description of the work:

The Night Watchman represents a solitary lighthouse, standing against a cold, untamable sea.
The sky is heavy, loaded with dark clouds, almost in motion, while the land, frozen by frost, traces a narrow path leading to the tower. The frozen grasses bend under the wind but do not break.

At the foot of the lighthouse, a small house faintly lights the night, reminding of human presence, humble and discreet. The lighthouse light, warm and steady, cuts through the violence of the landscape: it does not struggle, it watches.

Everything in this image speaks of silent resistance, constancy, and accepted solitude.
This is not a refuge from the world, but a fixed point when everything wobbles.

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Technical details
• Print 60 × 40 cm
• Limited edition of 30 copies
• Presented copy: 3 / 30
• Work number: T137982
• Photograph numbered and signed by the artist

Delivery:
• Shipped in a rigid tube
• Careful packaging
• Fast and secure delivery

Artist’s note:

For a long time, I have this simple and radical dream:
to live in a lighthouse.

Be alone facing the sea, far from the noise, far from the constant race.
To think about this world that stirs, consumes, compares, exhausts itself…
and stay there, motionless.

I imagine myself at the base of this lighthouse, with my fishing gear, a small boat,
setting out to sea each day, returning, living on little, but living justly.
Surviving in the noble sense of the term.

The Night Watchman is this inner posture:
not fleeing the world out of anger,
but distancing oneself from it through lucidity.

Stand tall.
Keep watch.
And let the storm pass.