Variations des cirques combines visual poetry and textile sculpture in its exploration of the hiker's thought patterns. The poems projected here were written when climbing up the Montcalm in spring 2023. This massif in Ariège becomes a space for investigation and impro- visation. The ordeal of the ascent is apparent and is conveyed in the poet's gesture. The collection thus created becomes an attempt at ascensional poetry.

An algorithmic system analyses the poems via numerous linguistic indicators (rhymes, feeling, speed, etc.) and directs three variations on a poem written as we look.

These replay the two days of the poet's climb via an immersion in the instantaneous making of words. The verse is transfigured in its variations: it becomes animated, grows and breaks free, and finally becomes a watercolour, which in turns becomes the score of a musical improvisation.