[Summer 2026]

James Andrew Rosen, Aphasia
by Louis Perreault

Montréal, Sternthal Books, 2025, 144 pages

[EXCERPT]

Everything seems still. Light alone enlivens this slowed time, this reign of silence, revealing tiny air movements that gently push dust in an orbit around something undefined. The ballet performed here also exists elsewhere, in all of these rooms, inhabited or abandoned – but only here, for those who linger, is it observed with such fascination.

A few photographers (I am one of them) have tried – unsuccessfully – to photograph this dance, but the camera’s focus is never able to truly capture these elusive particles. Like me, James Andrew Rosen may perceive the milky way of a floating microcosm: a sort of parallel world existing within ours on an infinitely small, imperceptible scale. And yet, he has in fact managed to capture this moment in suspension, which would be dissipated by a single movement in the space of the apartment.

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[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 132 – TABLEAUX ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: TITRE ARTICLE]

 

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For Louis Perreault, photography, writing, teaching, and publishing all offer paths for probing the all-encompassing phenomenon of creation. He approaches each project with the same desire to learn – that of an eternal student. Although he occasionally exhibits his work, it is usually found in books and magazines.