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Published on 04/17/2022
Print "Oiseaux", mosaic of old photos, linked together with paint.
One day Christine A. said to me "Oh Anne, I have a collection of encyclopedic cards, illustrations of birds that might be of interest to you...
I was a teacher in a small school, we removed asbestos, emptied the attic... My eyes fell on these cards nestled in cardboard boxes, they were going to go up in flames, I saved them from oblivion. |
They were there long before me you know, they date back to the twenties.
The teachers of the time taught natural sciences to young schoolchildren with illustrated cards.
One day I'll bring you some, they are exquisitely fine, you'll judge...». |
For three years, these few words remained etched in the back of my mind, adding to the thousand ideas stored for a future collection... |
This day happened..
I returned to my house clutching the images like treasure borrowed from an art collector. I already knew… |
First step, browse the different pockets: waders, birds of prey, doves and gallinaceans….
Second step, take ownership, select "my little birds", as Christine told me on the first day. |
They are of an adorable delicacy, some with their heads bowed, others in full flight, or among the flowers |
others in full flight, or among the flowers
higher from tall grass, |
or in couple.. |
I give them little names, manta ray, yellow helmet, flat skull, blue throat, |
I love the little one perched on a pine branch, it's my favorite, it reminds me of my grandson..
Third step: photograph my best of Fourth step: make an "installation" on a large sepia canson and extend the herbs and buds with a brush, |
Fourth step: make an "installation" on a large sepia canson and extend the herbs and buds with a brush,
cherry petals, thoughts, the blue streaks of the sky, measuring out the void for breathing and uniting the images, creating an ephemeral work, half photo half painting. |
Step Five: Deconstruct and Magic! My print was born! |
I have no doubt that you will be like me, touched by the goldsmith's work of this wonderful Swiss artist born in 1851!!
I tell myself that my mother may have had these images in her hands, in her little school in Corrèze. |
In my own way, I pay homage to this gentleman, Léo Paul Robert, poet of nature...
Four expressions for my Birds, there is something for everyone!…
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