This drawing was made for a cultural center, it echoed an intervention in the city forest. I presented five drawings made on trees after having coated them with paper paste to be able to draw on them.
The first drawing was of an astronaut, the second a Centaur threatening a man. On another, Icarus in his fall, further on, naked men and women horrified to see an astronaut in the night and finally a couple rising towards the sky.
The subject of the in situs project was to introduce the astronaut as an archetypal and mythological figure in the same way as the Centaur or Icarus.
In this painting the astronaut is in a luxuriant jungle which could be as much the earth as on another planet ... Strange as much as foreign because the astronaut is a modern image which does not exclude a mythological resurgence ... a some form of angelism.
Every step our societies take inevitably transforms it.
The conquest of space comes after the conquest of the earth, many men have tried to conquer the human psyche but much remains to be done ...
My technique: I make paper pulp with old cardboard that I wash and crush and that I apply on a linen canvas on a frame. Then once dried, I sand. For the drawings on a black background, I apply a matt gouache and draw with graphite.
This series is made to interact with our movements and light.
Depending on your movement and its exposure to light, the image disappears or appears. It is a vision that can remind us of the playground of our spyché, the continual swing between consciousness and unconsciousness or even the egnimatic discourse of dreams.
