Month: September 2024

Born to a geologist father, the designations igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary rock lulled my childhood with his professional appetite. To me, these words, and the time immemorial activity they name, embody my father’s hard core, and the hindsight instilled in him by a singular awareness of duration, at odds with my playful energy as a… Continue reading Island of Inocence

Entitled Œil géologue. Dégager la chair du mort terrain, (Geological eye. Uncovering the flesh of the overburden) this auto-fictional essay explores my family history, focusing on the human aspects of mining in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, where my father grew up, and in the hinterland of the Côte-Nord, where he worked as a prospector in the early 1950s.… Continue reading Geological Eye.