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"Inside Haleakala"
Haleakala creater at about 10,000 ft in Maui. The word Haleakala means the "house of the sun"

 

"Heart of Salt"

Poem by Julie Vigneault

"Coeur de Sel" (French)

Si tu disparaissais, si tu refusais de m’abreuver encore de ta présence, je deviendrais un cœur de sel.  Par le manque, je me cristalliserai. Les artères qui jadis irriguaient la vie en moi ne seraient plus alors que des reliefs de craquelures. Chaque souffle que je tenterais ne ferait qu’éclater un peu plus la fragilité de ma conscience.

J’en arrive à comprendre et même à envier la femme de Loth qui a eu le courage de se retourner une dernière fois malgré la lourde menace de Dieu. Pour toi, je prendrais aussi le risque d’être confinée dans une nature saline, éternellement amoureuse, éternellement condamnée à vivre le désert de ton absence.

Au bout de mon cœur de sel, un soleil de vie inonde pourtant la cordillère de nos montagnes.  Je pourrai envisager une nouvelle vie si c’est pour refranchir avec toi la cime de nos échanges sous un ciel sans nuage. J’aurai le courage de replonger au plus profond de mes espoirs phréatiques pour retrouver la source désaltérante de nos croisements.

 

"Heart ot Salt" (English)

If you would disappear, if you would refuse to overwhelm me with your presence, I would become a heart of salt.  By the emptiness, I would crystallize myself.  The arteries that used to irrigate the life in me could only become the highlights of my injuries.  Each breath that I would attempt to take would make my consciousness burst into pieces of fragility.

I can understand and also envy Loth’s wife who had the courage of turning over in spite of God’s terrible impendence. For you, I would have taken the risk of being confined in a saline nature, eternally in love, eternally sentenced to live in the desert of your absence.

At the end of my heart of salt, a bright sun of life yet floods the cordillera of our mountains.  I could consider a new life if it is for climbing again the peaks of our exchanges under a sky free of clouds.  I would have the courage of relapsing deep in my groundwater hopes to find again the refreshing source of our confluence.

Julie Vigneault (Contact her)

 

 

 
"The Subway"
Zion National Park, Utah
 
 
 
"Timeless Flow"
Zion National Park, Utah
 
"Sunrise at Lake Louise"
We arrived at Calgary airport at around 11pm, rented a car, had some chinese food at 1AM, then drove to the parking lot of Lake Louise, slept in the car for a few hours, got up at 4:15AM and captured this scene at 5:38AM exhausted but happy.

 

Poem by Julie Vigneaults

« Le sablier du silence »

Une léthargie nuageuse a envahie ma tête.  Péniblement, elle m’infiltre dans le sablier du silence.  De feu solaire en neiges éternelles, mes angoisses m’insinuent entres des montagnes de certitudes jusqu’à s’échouer vainement sur les plages d’un horizon de précarités. En fragile équilibre entre de vaporeuses confusions et le marbre d’une accablante éventualité, mon anxiété se mire dans un lac de paradoxes. Si le miroir limpide m’offre la perspective d’une baignade purificatrice,  il me reflète aussi trop parfaitement mes ténébreuses réminiscences. 

Je redoute obstinément la profondeur des eaux et tente de me soustraire à cette noyade symbolique.  Je voudrais me hisser sur les parois montagneuses dans une ultime ascension de raison.  Mais, je ne peux rien contre l’écoulement perfide du silence.  Le sablier m’emporte et me laisse déchue, le cœur en pierres,  aux pieds de la sombre réalité du paysage.  Je t’attends désormais en silence, l’âme en avalanche, entassée parmi des cailloux qui formèrent,  jadis, l’inukshuk de ta présence.

 

« The Hourglass of silence »

A cloudy lethargy has invaded my head.  Painfully, it infiltrates me in an hourglass of silence. From solar fire into eternal snows, my anxieties insinuate me among some mountains of certainties until it stranded vainly on the beaches of a horizon of insecurities.  In fragile balance of misty confusions and the marble of a devastating event, my anxiety is reflected in a lake of paradoxes.  If the mirror gives me the clear prospect of a purifying bath, it also too perfectly reflects my dark memories.

I dread stubbornly the deep of the water and try to withdraw myself from this symbolic drowning. I want to climb on the mountain walls in a final ascent of reason. But I can not flow against the perfidious silence. The hourglass takes me and leaves me fallen with my heart of stones, at the foot of the grim reality of the landscape. Now I'm waiting in silence, my soul in an avalanche of stones who once used to form the Inuksuk of your presence.

 

 
"Sunset at Moraine Lake"
Moraine Lake, Alberta
 
"Swallows"
I am fortunate enough to have a family of Swallows living in a bird house in my own bakyard. Once the chicks were born, the parents kept feeding them constantly which made for great photo opportunities.
 

"Green Harmony"
This scene was created on the island of Maui, on the road toward the little village of Hana. The waterfall is fed my a much larger waterfall not too far away. Tranquil.
 

"Colours Of St-Zenon"
Although you don`t see it in the photograph, it was a cold, windy and wet day but well worth the effort.
 
 
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