Dec.2010 - Grand solitaire

 

 

   

 

  

The snooker and pool balls were rescued from a scrapyard.. the oak is European.. there was a crack that had to be strenghtened.  With leather pads and soft neutral wax finish, Grand Solitaire rocks and knocks and rolls!
It is discreetly dedicated to Albert Camus, but what really matters is WHO can do it all starting from the center??

Dec. 2010 - Pencils cases II

187 x 85 x 82mm - quarter-sawn oak, pigment, leather pads, wax

198 x 114 x 43mm - oak, leather stop, wax

 

116 x 97 x 45mm - quarter sawn oak, old Staedtler sharpener, eraser, wax

Alice & Supernova (to Marta)

Marta is a friend who works as a seamstress and costumes maker. Alice is well-known character from litterature. Supernova is a sewing machine model.

We had a story together, without knowing about it... This is vague, but here's the factual data about the piece:

On its 4 wheels, it's light and mobile like a theatre costumes trolley. All wrapped in Kraft paper, all trimmed with a ribbon of Iroko. It's showing the abstract lines of a girl's dress paper pattern on the linen curtain and on its sides, and the old instructions sheet (from a 1969 magazine) covers the top. A palette of coloured threads lines along, ready to mend loose buttons.. 

 

Dec. 2010 - Left behind

Carbone

History

Graphein

Miners

Cedar

Pencils

They live in our pockets, they draw the lines; they're left behind; picked off the ground; drummed around...

Even became a Right.

They make their graphite Hard, or Black, or Fine.. You choose them from 0 to 9 since M.Faber's 1794 grading act.. We sharpen them in a rush, using a clever little device.. She plays at planting the pointy tip into her hand's soft skin and feels fakirish..At the end of the day there's a straight mark by his ear. Pencils end up embodying different aspects of industrial realities, personal stories and political situations.

photos : pencil cases I made of oak, sycamore, and cedar
 drawing pencils installation - they were left behind by a talented tattoo artist when he moved from Scotland. 

Shown at the Craft Reactor Showcase, Dec. 2010 Patriot Hall Gallery, Edinburgh.

 

(Traduction émancipée)

Abandonnés, perdus, ramassés, la mine cassée, la gomme usée, 

coincés derrière une oreille, 
allant venant dans un mouvement incessant,

piquant par surprise à travers une poche, 
poinçonnant à une heure perdue

le dos d'une main de petits cratères grisés,

façon fakir;

taillés à la va-vite,

ordonnés selon leur dureté de graphite; 

tant de petites mains troqueraient bien la pioche contre ces mines-là.

Nos crayons de papier incarnent bien des histoires, industrielles, personnelles, politiques. 

Photos: créations autour des crayons de papier, pièces exposées au Craft Reactor Showcase, Patriot Hall Gallery, Edimbourg, déc. 2010.