Shades of the Other Shore has come about through a collaboration between writer Jeffrey Greene and artist Ralph Petty. The two, writer and artist, share rural American beginnings, but have since discovered a new life in France, in sparsely populated French areas of Burgundy and the Ard¬che, respectively. Their cahier offers a deep mapping of their adopted regions: Greenes sequence of sketches and poems explores imagined correspondences between personal and historical ghosts tied to the seasons; Pettys watercolours record a journey to the source of a local river. The result is a rich artistic translation, through their American sensibilities, of the landscapes of their chosen homes.
