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Fête de la Rose

April 12, 2017 Rebekah West

Many thanks to all the amazing travellers and photographers who submitted cover images to me this month –  it was so lovely to check out the diversity of your style and design. Special thanks to Rebekah West, whose gallery is highlighted here. Her image, “Fête de la Rose” was chosen as the cover of Cargo Lit’s issue 9.

Photographer’s Statement:

Grasse is France’s perfume capitol where each May they host their famous Fête de la Rose, Rose Festival. In aesthetic mastery (and madness!), José and Corinne Mendez (Art-Floral Grasse) created a 35,000-rose cupcake-shaped concoction inside a gazebo. Within a simple outline, their sense of design and color was simply mind-blowing; this is one of the tiers shot from above, an angle seen only by its creators (and me).

—Rebekah West

 

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©2017 Rebekah West used with permission-

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And now, to introduce the Cargo Issue no 9 “Fete de la Rose” cover!

World Record Flower “Cupcake” 35000 flowers, Grasse, France

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About Rebekah West

Rebekah West is an American interdisciplinary artist-in-residence in the heart of France’s perfume country. Her photography and short films have been selected for exhibition and screening worldwide, including six exhibits in France featuring video and diptychs of women and flowers. With access to an octagonal 16th century chapel, she discovered and realized its acoustic properties by composing, performing, and recording original sacred music (CD Les Audides) and in 2016 garnering a 15-city American Echoes Tour through historical and ultra-modern spaces across the American south. She shot a tango film in her village, which is in post-production. MacArthur “genius” Liz Lerman’s upcoming book on creative critique includes one of Rebekah’s essays (Wesleyan Press, 2018). As a story finder for the Hallmark Channel’s New Morning Show, Rebekah featured artists living with meaning. She writes on dance for Presenting Denver and enjoys writing about art, creativity and expression. Wanting to come away from France changed, she has opened to aesthetic ravaging via color, sound, emotion, scent, and space awareness. Besides detecting the chapel “treasure”, she found an antique iron bed in the nearby forest; for her resulting interactive art journal, West is seeking a unique publisher, one that aligns with elevating young women artists within the greater human family.

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