Seasons series: Absence – exhibition
Seasons series: Absence – final
Seasons series: Absence – detail
Title: Absence
Seasons series
Format: 6 ft x 9 ft 1 in
Weight: 8 lb 7 oz
Date: 2023 – 2024
No. 280.2024.3
Technique: Textile squares, hand-quilted and assembled to produce a 3-dimensional effect on a canvas base with a wool core
4,675 4-cm squares
Description: The series depicts the seasonal development of semi-aquatic, pond plants on a ridge at over 2,000 m in altitude. Come the end of a blistering summer, both the water and plants are
conspicuously, glaringly absent.
Inspired as much by West African bogolan as the Ephemeral beauty of Andy Goldsworthy’s works, Absence lends a voice to the crack and crevices of the parched land.
Echoing the aridity of the topic, the work draws on a frugal array of some 20 fabrics. An arrangement of raw and robust canvases alongside linen formerly used in prisons.
Around the clumps of earth baked dry, irregular yet achingly similar crevices crackled by the heat, as if trimmed with an incandescent metal or mica.
Exhibitions
Semur-en-Auxois, Le Bahut, Bourgogne-France-Comté, 2025
Sotteville-sur-mer Flax and Fibre Festival Normandy, 2024
