arrangements ou compositions

Say it in English or in French – this post is about the placement of items in an attractive manner – some to tantalise, attract in the hope of a purchase or  just please in the aesthetic sense – whoever arranged these knows instinctively that the viewer will appreciate the effort. But maybe some compositions have been arrived at haphazardly . . .

. . . it’s a quiet morning in Les Halles in Avignon so an opportunity to take in and admire the arrangements and compositions inside and also outside . . . ..

 

. . . as it’s Tuesday the unoccupied fish tank becomes an installation in its own right and rarely seen.

Outside in Place Pie, this figure was for investigation . . .

. . .  even more eccentric from the front.

Ah, all so eclectic.

My mind is like a clamorous market-place.

   All day in wind, rain, sun, its babel wells;

   Voice answering to voice in tumult swells.

Chaffering and laughing, pushing for a place,

My thoughts haste on, gay, strange, poor, simple, base;

   This one buys dust, and that a bauble sells:

   But none to any scrutiny hints or tells

The haunting secrets hidden in each sad face.

The clamour quietens when the dark draws near;

   Strange looms the earth in twilight of the West,

Lonely with one sweet star serene and clear,

   Dwelling, when all this place is hushed to rest,

   On vacant stall, gold, refuse, worst and best,

Abandoned utterly in haste and fear.  Walter de la Mare.