Seasons series: Absence – exhibition
Seasons series: Absence – final
Seasons series: Absence – detail
Title: Absence
Seasons series
Format: 183 x 277 cm – 6 ft x 9 ft 1 in
Weight: 3.820 g – 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 ¹ , Absence lends a voice to the cracks 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.
¹ La belleza efímera, une beauté éphémère
Le Bahut exhibition, Semur-en-Auxois, Bourgogne-France-Comté,France, 2025.
Flax and Fibre Festival exhibition, Sotteville-sur-mer, Normandy, France, 2024.
