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The Great Fire – Forest of Dust 2014
Fire shapes glass and melts metal. I like its strength and shapeshifting power.
Steel wool is a material that touches me. Between dust and hair, it is ambiguous.
One day of experimentation with steel wool, I set it on fire. Amazing !
Like a child, I marvel at this spectacle.
The steel wool burns away, like a luminous and brilliant course. Once the incandescence is over, it remains like frozen dust
in the space. The material darkened, weakened but did not disappear.
The idea of making a large sculpture that I would set on fire came to mind. This singular moment would take on meaning by sharing it. I decide to set fire to the installation with the complicity of the children.
I modeled alone and with them “The forest of dust”.
I left and left the forest.
The children photographed her in my absence. She surely reminded them of our meeting.
I drew it so as not to forget them.
On my return, the children made a “breath print” in the glass as if to put out the fire that we were going to light three days later!
We then thought about “mourning” the created work.
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