First there was a line. Or a stain. Or a smear. Anyway, the white page must be attacked !
Drawings and paintings follow almost the same paths as the sculptures – but sometimes backwards, on the side, by intermittancy. The technique is secondary and the most important is the path, not the arrival.
Copper plate, 40x50 cm
The copper has a fantastic spectrum of colours that can be revealed with simple chemical processus – but there is no going back ! Once the surface has been bitten you have to do with what you have done.
Copper, paper, 30x40 cm
For the exhibition ”Voiles du Temps, le Vent l´emportera” at Dieppe Museum in 2011, my researches were based on Ovidius' ”Metamorphosis” and Borges's ”Library of Babel”. I imagined a whole continent in an unknown ocean with it´s cartography and the veils of an armada of paper-carried vessels.
Pastel on cardboard, 50x65 cm
What a great source of inspiration, the space and it's exploration !
Mixed media on paper, 20x30 cm
Charcoal on paper, 80x120 cm
