The album
Le triangle rouge is an hommage to the American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Architecture plays an important
part in it. The book is filled with architectonic masterpieces, for which
Andreas was inspired by the work of Lloyd Wright.
And yet the story isn't
about FLW, as Andreas calls him for short. "But its hard for me to explain
what its about exactly", Andreas says. "I've just finished
Le triangle rouge
a couple of months ago, I haven't taken enough distance from it to
be able to talk about it elaborately. The main thread is FLW dreaming about
a person who dreams about a person who dreams - etcetera. In this way I
play with the codes of dreaming, and I connect those dreams by all kinds
of hidden things that occur in them, like a mysterious box with a red triangle
painted on it."
This box contains red, triangular capsules. Taking in these capsules
causes hallucinogenic side effects. At the end of the story it becomes
clear what kind of stuff this is. Then the architect Lebeau Wood, one of
the book's personages, appears to have shot himself through the head. He
is in a coma, but is waken up with the help of the medicin Serondan. Andreas
seems to suggest that the box with the symbol represents the medicin, and
that this is the cause of all those dreams. But, as has just been noted,
the story is still too fresh for him to go into all kinds of layers of
the story.
"I consider it a sport to think of anagrams. In
Le triangle rouge appears a FBI-woman named
Anderson. That's an anagram for the medicin Serondan. Unfortunately, it's my experience that
anagrams drop out during translation."