Every year, Swiss artist François Monto makes clay sculptures on the banks of the Swiss Tolr river, and this year he made a large castle thanks to the drought.
Monto started this year's project with modest ambitions, but the drought allowed him to build an entire city of towers.
Now he has mixed feelings about it: he wants it to rain, but he would be sad if his dream world disappeared.
"I imagine the life of people passing under the archways, under the bridge, looking at the monuments, looking at the city," said Monto, who works with clay from the dried bed of the Toleure River in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland. transmitted by N1.
“Well, I go in and start dreaming….I see their world come to life under my fingers,” he added.
Monto, a nature lover, said he was saddened that plants were withering all around him and that "it would be a disaster" if he could continue the project for years due to the continued drought.
On the other hand, he knew from the beginning that his work was temporary.
"Of course, I'm a little sad because the shape I gave the matter will disappear," he said.
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