Zones arides (which means « arid zones » or « dry areas » in French) sprang from the desire of artist and globe-trotter Olivier Mosset to share his passion for the mythical country that is Arizona.
In literature, the incipit designates the first phrases of a novel, and in cinema the first scenes of a movie. It functions as a threshold, an open frontier between the outside of the real world and the inside of fiction. It is the beginning of a narration that anticipates what will come to pass, and suggests arrival with no thing being unveiled.
