Camo-Textures

 

Comment le motif d'un camouflage fait jaillir des reflets d'une rivière, un jardin japonais peuplé de créatures mythologiques.
The "Safari" series belongs to a research on patterns surrounding our everyday life. My idea was to pick forms and lines here and there, to transpose them into a different context allowing a new interpretation. As far as the camo pattern is concerned, I was interested to play with the contrast between its original use for military equipment and my poetic interpretation. While translating this pattern free hand onto canvas, some alterations appeared. Rounding some lines, stretching others, bringing a kind of irregularity into the drawing. At some places that nobody expected, the shape of a mythological animal like a dragon danced with a rabbit while a tiger fur became playground for a dinosaur. I could compare some of the lines to those I see in a bonzai tree or to the reflections of a mysterious forest in the tumultuous water of a torrent. I just wonder if any soldier can see all this world, hidden on his battle suit?