Artistic Cartography
Traces
(Manifesto)
Dwelling poetically in the world guides my practice.
I am drawn to what endures: traces left by time, gestures passed down, materials transformed, objects repaired, or silent landscapes that continue to tell a story. My work often arises from observation, walking, and collecting. I photograph atmospheres, accumulate fragments of materials, stones, shells, found objects, or colors encountered across the territories I traverse.
Through textiles, color, photography, ceramics, patinas, lime, or the transformation of objects, I seek less to produce forms than to reveal the relationships that unite human beings, materials, and the places they inhabit. I am interested in processes of transformation: those that alter a material, a landscape, or an object, but also those that transform our gaze.
My approach is nourished by particular attention to artisanal know-how, material cultures, and the discreet forms of beauty discovered when one takes the time to observe. I am sensitive to the philosophies of Wabi-Sabi, the impermanence of things, and the richness of traces left by the living. Land Art practices and artistic approaches that consider territory as a space of experience, relationship, and transformation also nourish my reflection.
Walk. Observe. Listen.
Traces #02 – The color of lands traversed
Some colors are not chosen. They appear along the paths, in the dust of a trail, on sun-warmed stone, in bark, damp earth, or the plants encountered along the way. For several years, I have been collecting these landscape impressions. Not to faithful
Traces #01 – Mapping Matter
Through dyeing, I seek to reveal the traces left by time, the elements and gestures. The variations in color, the denser or more faded areas compose a sensitive cartography where textile becomes landscape. Each piece is the testimony of a transformat
