2025 / LES RÊVES NOIRS (III)
Burnt wood, paint, marble, gold leaf

Les rêves noirs show landscapes composed of inlays of burnt and painted wood, marble fragments, and gold leaf. The temporal contrasts inherent in these materials, as well as the scenes they depict -such as the fire poppies (a species endemic to California) that only germinate following forest fires- seem to render tangible the otherwise imperceptible scale of geological time. They continually evoke, both through the material and the subjects represented, the episodic phenomena of destruction and rebirth intrinsic to nature.