BAC À SABLE
2022
Bac à Sable (Sandbox) is about the joy and excitement of exploring and approaching the world through play as an adult and reconnecting with the joy of a child for discovering a new world that I will create.
The series is composed of two embroidered works of art on cream-coloured canvas with tapered edges. The pieces recall the freedom of exploration and express childhood adventure through the drawings.
A kind of map drawn in gray sand with roads which survey the canvas, intersecting here and forming loops or straight lines, gives the whole a strange form. Along the lines, embroidery with a vivid color spectrum grows here and there. The patterns created are all unique. They are made of dashes, loops, short lines, puffy threads, etc.
I use my own family as an investigative tool by having scanned the drawings of my daughter since she started holding a pencil in her hand. Among them, two drawings brought my attention. The drawings expressed, with a particular language made with colored lines and unrecognizable shapes, the freedom of exploration, the growth of a child.
On the canvas, I traced the lines of my daughter's drawing with sand and used the original colors to create embroideries in a free and unpremeditated way by giving myself free rein to my imagination. But at the same time, by using thread as a material I am controlling the piece which reminds me about my adult position. Bac a sable becomes a playground for adventure surrounded by a wall to limit the space. The sand on canvas invites play and defines it at the same time.
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 48 x 30 in
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 48 x 30 in (detail)
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 48 x 30 in (detail)
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 48 x 30 in (detail)
BAC À SABLE #1 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 43 x 33 in
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 40 x 30 in (detail)
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 40 x 30 in (detail)
BAC À SABLE #2 | 2022 | sand, cotton threads on canvas | 40 x 30 in (detail)