The book The Jellyfish and the Moon

The Jellyfish and the Moon was performed in Grey Area's program in 2017.

The Jellyfish and the Moon (La Méduse de la Lune) tells the story of a jellyfish which, tired of the tourists in its waters, decides to go live on the Moon in order to "float in peace". But was it a good idea …

Fabienne Gambrelle's text has been illustrated by Anaïs Tondeur and Gabriel Grandry, the images have been sent to the Moon (visual moonbounce) by Daniela de Paulis and Clarisse Bardiot (Editions Subjectile) is publisher.

It is bilingual French-English

http://subjectile.com/portfolio-items/la-meduse-de-la-lune/

It is a wonderful book, a book for children (tested and approved from 4 years old) as well as a collector's for adults.

It all starts on a beach, in the sight of bathers playing and splashing. Near the rocks, fishermen scrape the seabed. Offshore, pleasure boats ply the sea noisily, divers rush in horde towards the depths. But how can marine animals withstand this uproar?

This question gave birth to the story of The Jellyfish and the Moon. A jellyfish, of supple, luminescent beauty, belonging to a species that has been on our planet for much longer than humans and which has no other choice but to leave its habitat.

Where will it go? On the Moon! But humans, invasive on Earth, also travel in space …

This multi levels tale weaves a fictional epic, in a tradition of adventure against a background of evocation of the conquest of space, to that of migration, underpinned by our relationship to other living beings, our way of inhabiting the planet and, perhaps, other celestial bodies such as the Moon.

Fabienne Gambrelle's text is illustrated by drawings by Anaïs Tondeur and Gabriel Grandry who associated iconic images of the conquest of space with the softness and reverie of the sea and of Selene, shadow and light.

In addition, those images were sent to the Moon by artist Daniela de Paulis through EME - Earth-Moon-Earth or "Moonbounce" technology.

The different reading levels together with the richness and duality of the original as well as the “moonbounced” illustrations make it a book for children (tested and approved from 4 years old) as well as a collector's for adults.

The Jellyfish and the Moon, by Fabienne Gambrelle, drawings by Anaïs Tondeur & Gabriel Grandry, Visual Moonbounce images by Daniela de Paulis, Editions Subjectile, 2021 - Bilingual French-English - ISBN : 978-2-36530-030-8 - 18 € - Order : http://subjectile.com/portfolio-items/la-meduse-de-la-lune/

Fabienne Gambrelle is a screenwriter and writer. She loves the sea, summer, dancing, glitter, the starry night, icy Eskimos and history, which she studied at the Sorbonne. When she is neither at the ball nor at the beach, Fabienne Gambrelle writes books and scripts for animated films for children. She has participated in the writing of numerous television series and has published, with Karibencyla editions, two children's novels and two illustrated albums: Les Glaces et les Chocolats de l'Harmonie (2016 and 2017); Petit Poucet et le Minotaure (2010); Hänsel, Gretel et Saci Pererê (2015). With a passion for Brazil, she has devoted several books to this country (Julien apprenti capoeira, 2005 ; Le Goût du Brésil, 2012). Her bibliography also includes works for adults on love of good food and craftsmanship co-written with artisans (Les Laques, Solar, 2006; Ma langue au chocolat, Flammarion, 2008; Le Goût des desserts, Mercure de France, 2013).

Anaïs Tondeur
In an approach rooted in ecological thought, Anaïs Tondeur develops an interdisciplinary practice through which she explores the different ways of “coming back to earth” by means of investigation protocols or speculative accounts presented in the form of installations, drawings, photographs or videos. A graduate of Central Saint Martin (2008) and the Royal College of Arts (2010) in London and recipient of the Cyber Arts Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica (2019), she has presented and exhibited her work in international institutions such as the Center Pompidou (Paris), the Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), the MEP (Paris), the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Serpentines Galleries (London), Bozar (Brussels), the Biennale Di Venezia, French Pavilion, (Infinite Places), Houston Center of Photography (United States) or the Nam June Paik Art Center (Seoul). https://anaistondeur.com/

Gabriel Grandry  lives and works in Paris. A self-taught designer, he has spent the last fifteen years sketching in pastel the zinc architecture of the roofs of his neighborhood. A former auto mechanic, he is now devoted entirely to illustration and the creation of books for children.

Daniela de Paulis is an artist of Italian origin living in the Netherlands. Her artistic creation is part of a broad field of art-science-technology. She has an amateur radio operator license (IU0IDY) and is also trained as a radio telescope operator. From 2009 to 2019 she was artist in residence at the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope where she created a body of work based on innovative radio technologies in live performances. Since 2010, she has collaborated with various international organizations, including Astronomers Without Borders, for which she created an artistic program of which she is the director. She is a member of the international standing committee of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and of the advisory group of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). https://www.danieladepaulis.com/

Visual Moonbounce 

The Visual MoonBounce developed by Daniela de Paulis during her residency at the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in the Netherlands is an innovative application of lunar bounce technology used during the Cold War by the United States Navy as a spy instrument, replaced at the end of the 1950s by satellites. However, radio amateurs continue to use it in experimental and fun forms of international communication. The principle is based on sending radio waves from a transmitter to a receiver by reflection on the surface of the Moon. The Moon is thus used as a passive communication satellite. Literally, it "sends back" the signal, however with a loss in its sharpness, creating fragile and blurred images, as fragile as the world of jellyfish, our world.