BAC À SABLE

2022 

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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.

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