While I love art for its beauty, I am these days often more interested in the interactions that unfold around the work. Art can be a powerful catalyst for human connection. It sparks dialogue and creates space for encounters that bring us together.
I invite you to look at the projects on this page through this lens. Consider the pieces as only one part of the work. The human interactions that preceded their creation, and those they may still spark, form an equally essential dimension of each project.
Histoires de Femmes
This paper cut mobile was created after a series of portraits I drew during visits in a residence for seniors. These inspiring women had many stories from their past to share, and allowed me to draw them as we talked.
Themes that came up in many of the interviews were their love for the mountains, and their gratitude for the connections to the other women in the residence. This inspired the final artwork, a paper cut mobile. Paper cutting is a traditional alpine art, and the pieces of the mobile are connected by threads, as the lives of the residents are connected by their friendships.
On my Instagram account, you can see the mobile in motion.
Care Machine
In a time when the social and political landscapes sometimes feel fractured by fear and division, many of
us long for care and connection. At the same time, our pace of life has increased and many of our interactions have moved to the digital space, leaving fewer opportunities to get together and share meaningful moments. In addition, care is systemically undervalued in our society. Creating a vending machine, a consumer object and site of economic exchange, that distributes acts of care and connection, I hope to question the notion of the economic and societal value of care.
What does it mean when something priceless is made transactional? Can art reframe the economics
of exchange by offering not only an object but an experience of connection?
The vending machine contains seven different capsules, inspired by Inspired by Fluxkits. Each of the capsules contains the instructions for a ritual of connection, accompanied by a mini print, hand printed in a different printmaking technique. The capsules are decorated with an illustrated label featuring watercolour illustrations.
Drawings and paintings
These paintings emerged from reflexions on our ambiguous relationship with nature.
Both oil on canvas, 110×110 cm
Above: Plant consciousness, Colour pencil drawing on paper
Screen Prints
I have always been fascinated by the intricate shapes and stunning symmetry in nature.
To create this series of prints, I assembled leaves and grasses to ‘draw’ insects with them, and then used these to expose printing screens. Finally, I printed the images in geometrical formations to create mandalas.
