The Alchemistry of Attraction @Paris Perfume Week
"What is deepest in man is the skin"—Paul Valéry
For those who believe emotional proximity is the first meaningful occurrency.
French Connections was made to be read like a letter—slowly, personally, and with someone in mind. The stories stay close, even after the last line.
For Supporting Patrons (Paid Members), as part of the Synesthesia Series.
Paul Valéry once said:
‘Si vous saviez combien la peau est profonde. Oui, cela dépend comme on la caresse.
Il y a des personnes qui vous effleurent comme une écorce, et d'autres qui vous remuent jusqu'à la sève.’—French‘If you knew how deep the skin is. Yes, it depends on how it is caressed.
There are those who merely graze you like bark, and others who stir you to your very sap.’—English
The line returned recently, upon Paris Perfume Week, and with it, something else.
Not all intimacy is spoken. Not all presence is visible.
If Under the Skin stayed close to contact—to what we sense right before we touch,
some forms of closeness begin even further out.
Sometimes in breath.
Sometimes in scent.
Sometimes in the air between two people, when nothing’s been said—
but something has already begun.
What the Body Knows First
