A deep blue Paris florist, flowerpots spilling onto the pavement and, behind the flap, an armful of flowers.
The 19.5 × 19.5 cm Brindille pouch brings a little garden into your bag. Lightweight, multi-purpose, made from recycled polyester and made in France.
Brindille overflows with flowers.
They spill onto the pavement, climb the shelves, crowd together in pots and seem to have decided that the deep blue façade is merely a frame designed to make them look even better.
Naturally, I stopped.
This is how I photograph Paris: by walking and paying attention to what happens at pavement level. Small shops, colours, signs and windows. And every now and then, a florist that transforms a few metres of Paris street into an improvised garden.
When the pouch is closed, you stay outside. Brindille appears as it does from the street, surrounded by plants and pots.
Then lift the flap.
And the flowers take over.
Bouquets, leaves, stems, petals and colours fill the second photograph. The inside of the florist unfolds across the pouch, and the simple gesture of opening it becomes a tiny Paris walk.
Fortunately, this 19.5 × 19.5 cm square pouch is rather versatile.
Use it for cables, chargers, earphones, make-up, pencils, a small notebook, glasses, papers or any little accessories you want to find easily in your bag.
Everyone needs a secret garden.
At Maron Bouillie, I do not want my photographs to live only on walls. I like putting them onto objects that become part of everyday life.
A photograph becomes fabric. A storefront becomes a pouch. A walk through Paris ends up inside a bag.
Brindille is printed from my original photographs onto recycled polyester fabric and made in France in small batches.
Flowers all year round.
And these, at least, never need watering.
