My focus on the line in my sculpture has a double origin:The first is both classical and French and comes from the work and drawings by Auguste Rodin, particularly the drawings of the Cathedrals of France. Traveling from one village to another on his bicycle he made many studies of the moldings of these churches. The second origin comes from the practice of steel and the forge, creating a work that commences with a drawing on the floor. It also comes from the history of American Minimalism experienced through European eyes and ears. A line of steel is for me a line that is built in segments. The segments interpret a handwriting, the movements of the arm and the hand. It is a line that is strengthened through its interruptions, with each interruption creating intervals and moments of silence. This segmentation leads us to repetition, to rhythm, to music, to a sequence where one passes from the eye to the ear. My recent works are all readings line by line of the construction of a time of vision which joins that of listening. New Drawings 2014 Five series All drawings are 22 X 30 charcoal and pastel on sommerset paper FRACTALS Perception is a fragmentation of the line of vision, of a sound, of a taste, of a feeling, of a memory or of an event. We perceive only in segments and each of these segments is strengthened by the segment either before or after the action. The repetition of the segments, the parts, the sounds, the forms, the gestures, create a body of work inhabited by the engagement of meaning. GESTURES To draw is a time entirely dedicated to a choreographic moment of gestures. Each gesture conducts our perception to a form, a calligraphic form: writing, revealing, transforming and conducting the drawing into our intimate space. The gesture is the most ancient way to share and to communicate. TRACES The most irreducible form of human life is contained in the trace, and is the obsession of our future. Each trace and particularly each archeological trace helps us to reconstitute our identity. They are the foundations of the desire to create a present. RESONANCE To create a resonance you need the line and the form. Most forms will conduct us to a specific sound, as will most colors or matter. To vehicle the sound trace a line and follow the line. You shall probably perceive the sound of the drawing. EVENTS We are the witness of events and they suddenly take a predominant place in our lives. These drawings are the installation of the event in a fraction of my space. The surface of the sheet of paper is suddenly the place of an installation of a predominant event.