Chinese hanzi, luminous ideograms, burst into the black sky, writing a text without an alphabet. Fireworks are perhaps one of the last universal rituals in which humanity celebrates light, time, and community together. Heir to Chinese powder, medieval alchemy, and princely festivities, it retains something archaic, as if every society, at any latitude or era, still felt the need to transform the night into a parenthesis of ephemeral beauty.Napex 25381

Sylvain Bellenger