THE RITUAL OF TRANSHUMANCE

Trans-humus, on the other side of the Earth

Trans-humus explores our relationship with objects and practices imbued with spirituality. Cazalens embarks on a new exploration of a millennia-old tradition defined by the seasonal migration of herds, embodying challenges of resilience and climate adaptation. Trans-humus invites us to rethink our connection to adornments bearing protective symbols.

The collection consists of brooches that revive a practice carried out by shepherds during transhumance: a cultural heritage of adorning herds with floral ornaments, imbued with prophylactic beliefs to ensure the protection and prosperity of the flock.

Cazalens adopts an anthropological approach, positioning the collection at the heart of an inseparable bond with the living world. This approach questions the fragility of the material and immaterial heritage of shepherds and the vanishing knowledge of pastoral life.

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The heritage of the shepherds

Le Pastoral

How can we make today's pastoral tools and channels correspond with pastoral imaginations?

The project proposes to promote pastoral heritage through a collection of home accessories inspired by the graphic heritage of shepherds' engravings.
of shepherds' engravings.

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“On Sunday mornings, housewives in small villages make tomato soup. Tomatoes cut in half and cleaned of seeds-appropriate, as they say-water, a cruet of oil, a frying pan of fine onions. All this on an earthen pot on the stove. When eleven o'clock arrives, all the pots start boiling and the whole village smells of tomato soup. The shepherd has arrived in the morning, and heavy with fatigue and dust, he rests under the plane trees. This smell of tomato soup is for him the smell of Sunday, the beautiful Sunday when you have the day free, a house, a clean table, a fresh, washed fireplace, blue from the blue to the stone and washed to the board of the cupboard; the beautiful Sunday when you have your housewife ready to lie against you, with all her flesh, when you are no longer a shepherd, this sailor of the land, this runner of stopovers, this wanderer... All this in a dream, because the shepherd is alone under the plane trees and the village belongs to others. “

Jean Giono, Le serpent d'étoiles, Editions Bernard Grasset, 1933

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