In the Hérault Valley, Baskul spends hours balancing stones. An ephemeral art, whose sole objective is to sublimate nature and to outsmart gravity more and more. In video, discovering the Stone Balancing.
Do you know the Stone Balancing? An ephemeral art that requires patience and perseverance, but the result of which leaves young and old alike dreaming. To discover this discipline which is practiced almost everywhere in the world and to understand how it is possible to keep stones in balance, we went to meet Cyril under the Cambous bridge, on the banks of the Lergue, in the Valley. of the Hérault.
Ephemeral works at the mercy of the slightest gust of wind
The artist is better known under the name of Baskul, the pseudonym he uses on social networks where he shares photos of his works that he often takes long minutes to create … and whose lifespan does not exist. ‘not exceed a few moments. The balance is so fragile that the slightest breath of wind knocks it down. And if this is not the case, it is Baskul himself who takes care of it, after a photo, so that his leisure does not distort nature, his playground.
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