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Just back home and the morning after i left for a small roadtrip in Bretagne...Saint Nazaire, Saint Brevin, Guerande, La Baule, Pornichet and to finish this tour, we ended up in Nantes...Honestly this is my top ten's city...And i came to the cathedral of Nantes to visit my favourite sculpture...it s been done by Paul Dubois and the name is "la charite universelle". A wonderful woman that gives milk to 2 children:one african and one caucasian...




in this cathedral, i used to come a lot when i was running my own tattoo shop (Out of step tattoo, the enemy of the sun) in Nantes in 2003-2004...when i needed some calm or inspiration, i used to come and sit to listen to the big organ too...There are plenty of treasures everywhere...Some of my favourites are:

a painting of 1956 of Andre Minaux....



and the unbelievable grave of Francois II....sculpted on the 4 corners with crazy details!!!!!







some places i really love too in Nantes...the library Les enfants terribles...there was a cool exhibition of Aude Leonard. They are specialized in only children books...the problem is im collecting them for ages..so of course i went away with an amazing one.
"Le Roi sans terre" from Marie-Sabine Roger and Sylvie Serprix....The text is so delicate that with my poor english i cant translate with as many emotions as they wrote theirselves...the story is about a king without kingdom. He travels for a long time, looking for a place that he could call Home...Reminds me my quest somewhere too...





and the Elephant from the island of Nantes that gives its image to the city for a few years now...



And if you re in town one of those days here are two addresses i love very much to visit:
Rue Fenelon there is an art gallery called simply "Galerie Arts Pluriels"...there was a very great exhibition of Henri Guibal...
We came to visit a friend that works on one of the best library: "librairie Coiffard"...Inside that shop he is running "Librairie l'index" He's specialized into graphics arts/posters/architecture/tattoo books/rare fanzines/comix... You can find EVERYTHING!!! even my last publication!!! But there are also some imports, very rare books, out of prints editions and printings....of course, i couldnt stand without going away with a treasure. I found "kindling" of James Jean...






ok! here are some pictures of that trip! next: probably a few tattoos freshly done and Paris...