Studio

ART & CRAFT / CARVING, WEAVING

Sculpture and weaving.

How volume sculpture inspires my weavings.

Weaving approached as a new material to explore.

Weaving makes it possible to understand the color, the interrelation between medium and process at the origin of the form.

September 12

Narrative writing, playing with colors. Experiments. The preliminary works are similar to extended meditation. Weaving has a strong and enveloping presence, against my work with porcelain, hard an white

July 27

How does this instrument end up here?

In parallel, I read Daniel Mendelsohn's Les Disparus. The author ties up loose ends, goes, 60 years later, in search of pieces of it, gathers them together, untangles them, ties them up again, tries to fill in the holes, organize the fragments. That's it. A story that unfolds, that is written in time.

First of all, make a place for it. There it is in its place. As one can say that I am in my place at Chassy, what may be surpriseing. The instrument was reassembled, I cleaned it, I put away the bobbins, the spindles, the shuttles, I learned unknown words, I got used to its presence, I met Patrick Guerrier.

First step: adjust it, tune it. Organize this tangle of strings, knotted, broken, knotted aggain over the years; do not get tangled up !

2020’s work

40 as a quarantine, like the 40 days in the desert, like the 40 thieves...40 is the multiplicity. It is a lot, it is a long time.
The cross, anthropomorphic, Christic, abstract in its geometry, gregarious by accumulation.

We find in this work, themes that are important to me: at the same time the will to connect, to reunite, and the feeling that we are all linked, tied to each other solidarity.

Here I show the crosses-modulated one by one in their individuality.

This work was born during the lockdown of this year 2020.
I am currently working on the elaboration of 40 elements, crossed modules together. An agglomeration of crosses.

With this work, I want to participate in a collective exhibition of the works created in this difficult and for many terrible years.

2020 = 40

THE BASEBOARDS

Under the cantilever are lots of old wooden beams. Many of them were used to build the acoustic chamber of the sound studio. They are probably from an old structure, but when were they made? I don't know. Like the stones we used, we use now and we will use it again. The baseboard is part of the sculpture.
Working on this old oak tree is like playing music on a beautiful instrument. The heart of the wood is hard and dense never attacked by insects as the sapwood. I take it off with an old tool; the oak and its wavy lines are revealed 40, 80, 120, 180... sanding reveals the secrets of the wood. It’s magical !

Life and work

One place can bring life and work together. As in the theater: the unity of space, unity of time, unity of action.
I see all the same, the same furniture painted in white. An expanded room. Gulliver in the country of Lilliput. Alice in Wonderland.
We can say the Workshop is in progress: to appropriate the light and space of point 8FW58N53 + JR.

Chassy's castle-farm has the name of Gallo-Roman: Cassius' house.
In U with the sunset of the sun. The days there are longer.

Thursday, November 14
Rainy weather, 1°, mud everywhere. Excavation work continues.
The mezzanine heaters were turned on since this morning. Friday, November 15. It snowed this morning.
At 3 in the afternoon, I cross the hall with the rain, I had my briefcase (portable office for months), my computer, the vacuum, rags, a coffee and a bottle of water.
6:27 pm the music player is connected: Lana del Rey Ultraviolence. Tomorrow boxes.
Saturday, November 16.
9 am a warm and beautiful light welcomed me. The arrangements continue. The piles of boxes seem endless. I throw things, I classify files.
Tuesday, November 19: plans, easels arrived this morning and tomorrow desk chairs will. That's it. It's done.

Go downstairs with the astronaut suit that attacks me while I am making the distribution of the Great Workshop, an extensive isolated space but without heating, that is another story. Go on! We started.

Moving the workplace

Moving the workplace, office, shelves, library, ovens, and piano. What to say about it? Dismantle the decoration and lift it somewhere else? It is better to look at the place in a different way. See things from a new angle. In my case, to go there even if it is not ready. At the last moment, the shelves did not fit in the truck. With a month late, the frames are not installed. I know it's normal and I don't want to worry about it. Go ahead, let's go.

The mountains of wood, beams, and boards that we have in place will serve as shelves and work plans.

In one week we have sanded 42 beams! We have optimal conditions working covered and outdoors. Children also take care of space by seeing things from another angle, in their way.

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The calcined sculptures

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It snows. I write from my bedroom.

Look into the past? I prefer to look forward!

Then move forward and re-appropriate the past.

We read in the stories and legends where the heroes to reach the love of the princess, they must cross a dark forest full of danger. It cannot take another way. It is the path of initiation.

The monsters walk freely in the workshop: I have good company; I have to choose what to take and what to leave.

The calcined sculptures. Aligned as soldiers. Filled with dust.

Made in 2008. Varnished in wood oven. I remember trying to capture the dark charcoal and the subtle grays and whites of the ash. In this time I burned everything. Fascinated by the colors in black and infinite whites. It's a pretty dramatic picture of death. I knew it was not a road where I would stay for a long time. Here we have a picture of burnt lemons.