Fairies, mermaids and mineral gardens
My pieces come from two places: a forest, and a fairy tale.
The forest first. It is the setting I recreate most often, and always from above, where the leaves float in the air and try to reach the sky, but are too small and too fragile to get there. I remain humble before the Universe.
Choosing stones as the beads of the vines, or freshwater pearls and crystal beads for the clusters and the blossom, is what gives my works their immortality.
The twisting trunk, the branches entwining like lianas, the roots going on for ever. Perhaps I am looking for my own distant roots…
A beaded tree is not built like a real one: you begin with the flowers!
What I am after in the jungle and in the undergrowth is not clear light. It is the shadows, the reflections on water, the dark night, the full moon and the stars. A bead is never so beautiful as against the light, when it stops being an object and becomes a point of light.
The fairy tale next. I fully own that imaginary world: the fairies, the mermaids, the fantastical creatures. They are not decorative themes, they are a way of looking. A mermaid explains why a necklace should stream rather than hang straight. A fairy explains why a crown should look as though it had settled there by itself.
Between the two, there is the mineral garden. That is the name I give to my compositions where stone takes the place of the plant. A garden that does not wilt, that asks for nothing, and that still changes its appearance all day long depending on where you set it down. I like being surrounded by my own pieces, they drive my imagination, and so a harmonious circle forms for my inspiration and for the awakening of the senses!
