[ ‘a ( ï ) ]  offers useful ‘solutions to most alterations…

no side effects or even benefits however 😉

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panoramas (2022 – 2023 ): 

Can they be imaginary natural histories?

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signs (2019 – ):

Can we just try to decipher?

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wetlands (2019 – ): 

Is this where it began?

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vagues vallées (2018-):

Can we translate “vague à l’âme”?

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swarms (2017- ): 

Can a cloud be a mountain?

This is a respectfully free revisiting of Chu The-Chun’s journey into abstract landscapes…

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canopy (2016-2017): 

Can a forest be enclosed?

The only reason to enter a forest is to look up in the air, trying to see through the canopy. It is like a tunnel without entrance…

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just before (2017): 

How can they meet?

There is simply no answer to this simple problem!

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piers (2015-2016)

Can a city be an endless platform

Is it an antique Babylon or a New Babylon? Is it utopia or dystopia?

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just after (2017): 

How did they meet?

There are simply too many answers to this simple question!

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embrasures (2014 – 2015):

Can a wall be an opening

An embrasure is a widening in a wall. It can be horizontal or vertical and it appeals to the body and the self. In domestic architecture it refers to the outward splay of a window also called “arrow slit” on the inside.

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scapes (2013 – ):

Can a forest be a clearing?

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“anfractuosités” (2008 -2009)

Can a crevice be superficial?

This series is a systematic exploration of wall cracks here seen as bodily analogies. Created  in parallel and in collaboration with writer Catherine Mavrikakis, these pencil and charcoal drawings have been digitally transferred onto 1.20m x 1.80m bi chromatic prints and exhibited at the Galerie Monopoly (Montreal, 2008) as part of the “Frontières émouvantes” event matching writers and architects / artists.