Mist Dancer
Karyn Planett
Bordeaux, France 2010
A fine mist wafted skyward, swirling into a cooling cloud that enveloped the steamy French summer sun. Across Bordeaux’s sweeping Miroir d’Eau, a willowy young jeune fille, to whom I gave the name Josette, swayed and played and danced the day away unaware of our camera.
Other children splashed and dashed across the world’s largest water mirror yet cared not a whit about the fountain’s Parisian designer named Jean Max Llorca, its 900 syncopated jets underfoot, or the crowds gathered along the Garonne River to enjoy these children’s playfulness.