What if trees could talk?
I spent a long time looking at trees at the back of the farm, in between reading personal letters I wrote and received when I was a teenager and a young adult, in a world where email were not invented yet.
What if trees could talk? I choose three trees and started drawing them on little cards used by my father decades ago, kept in a metal box.
This process lead me to draw with trees and their sape, in a frottage technique. The weather in Les Vosges is quite often grey and rainy. When the trees are wet they leave yellow marks, their sape start talking. I developed a series of works, imprinting trees marks on clear gesso.
Trees share their colours when it rains.
Process photograph , Jarmenil, 19 October 2023
