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Latest additions, chronology
The latest additions to lemoulindumerle.com and Le Moulin du Merle—the real estate and Internet domain located in St. Germain des Bois, Nièvre, France—are listed and linked here. While every upload to this site is also announced at owner Jouke Kleerebezem's personal portal www.nqpaofu.com, all deeper links will go from here. For the time being a 'Moulin' search of nqpaofu.com will take you to an abundance of local faits divers and meditations, which will eventually migrate (back) here.
So what are the basic issues?
The site's main (navigational) footholds are latest Additions (find the updates, here, now), House and Inhabitants (past, present and future of its household: how the place is lived), Entourage (describing multiple contexts: from its geography to its artistic entourage, to some of its surrounding natural phenomena et cetera) and Competences (a more speculative section on what the place invites to). In due time you will find a full list of distinct spaces in and around the house, the current one being unlinked as it is. In the next version, following the links you can access these spaces' descriptions and visualization, and all connecting spaces will be linked directly, as in the actual house.
Apart from the narrative, adding every day, I am particularly looking forward to do some design work here, like the background patterns, for which I plan to use my own pencil drawings representing existing wallpapers and floors, mixing with wallpaper samples from the past and present day of the house. Designing new wallpapers for it would also be an interesting opportunity for myself or other designers.
Visually and conceptually extending the place's interior and exterior and 'use', formatting its habits, is a huge challenge. We will not be documenting, nor too much fictionalizing life at the Moulin du Merle. Extending it, mixing different presences and spheres, would better describe the aim of this site: adding radius loci to genius loci. So please keep returning.
[JJK]
Cinclus cinclus, Dipper, Waterspreeuw — or the 'Merle d'Eau' which gave Le Moulin du Merle its name
(illustration from Brehm's Tierleben)
the Moulin du Merle water wheel
on a postcard after
an appr. 1850 photograph
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