FEUILLES FERALES (FERAL LEAVES)
Bird skull used as a quill to write the poems, night blue ink.
4.5 x 2 x 2 cm
4 photograms : bird skull and pelvises, dried-up cactus pad, thorny branch. All found on an island.
All photographs have been abraded, eroded, dissolved, and left drying in the wind like leaves.
Leporello Moleskine (21 x 13.5 cm – 312 cm long when fully open)
11 unique silver-based prints on ancient silver-based photographic paper (10.5 x 16 cm each)
10 animal-related poems written with the bird skull using night blue ink
2 black cat whiskers
Unique edition, in private collection
WILD PROPHECY
Paper wasp nest that fell from a hollow weeping willow tree full of beautiful rats
21 small scrolls, on each, a strophe of the poem Prophétie Sauvage (Wild Prophecy),
like the silk caps covering the cells when the larvae pupate into adults
Archival quality glassine and ink
8.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm
Price on request
THE GLASS BOOK
Unique Wabi-sabi poetry glass book. On the glass plates you can see high mountains, waterfalls, glaciers, and sometimes a discreet human presence.
9 ancient stereoscopic positive glass plates, archival ink, original ancient cardboard box.
Box: 2.6 × 5.5 inches
Glass plates: 2.4 × 5.1 inches (each 0.03 inches thick)
Price on request
THE SECRET FAUST
Unique edition artist book. The text is secret. The book can only be read by its owner and it involves destruction of the cover. That book cannot be sold, it can only be a soul gift. True pacts, can only be deep love pacts. Part of Pyroclast, to illustrate a dream.
136 pages, blackout poetry (indian ink on ancient Goethe’s Faust edition)
Wrapped in archival glassine paper, then in a Montval Torchon 270 g/m2 box (organic glu)
Fully sealed with white cotton thread, and drops of my blood.
18 x 11 x 1.2 cm