INSIDE STORY: Colour pigment extraction from deep-sea sediments (Project 2023)

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:14:05 +0000

One work project for 2023 is to extract the colour pigments from the deep-sea sediments brought back from my expedition across the Pacific Ocean. These samples were brought aboard our research vessel with the help of a scientific research probe, the so-called Multicorer (MUC), from a depth of over 5 km from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Together with the water samples also brought back from the expedition, I want to use these materials to develop watercolour-like drawings on the theme of “plastic pollution of the ocean, sustainable development and biodiversity”.

INSIDE-STORY: Resurrection of my left drawing hand

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:44:02 +0000

During the Covid-19 pandemic, I implemented a long-standing wish to bring my left hand back to life. Being born left-handed, I had buried it at the age of five after my grandmother had told me: “If you keep drawing with your left hand, the left side of your face will rot …” (!).

I spent three months alone exclusively studying lines to sensitize the long-neglected hand to the different nuances of pressure sensitivity.

In November, the “awakened Snow White” was able to prove itself for the first time in a commissioned work: The sketch “Temple of Consumption” (charcoal/paper, 40×60 cm, see photo) for my artistic excursions commissioned by the Gadagne Museum (Lyon/FR, 2021), a metaphor for the consumption of resources. The Lyon gastronomic icon “Mère Brazier” (1895-1977), 2. Franz Kafka’s short story “A Hunger Artist” (1922), 3. my experimental exploration of our oxygen consumption via freediving.

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INSIDE STORY: Colour pigment extraction from deep-sea sediments (Project 2023)

INSIDE-STORY: Resurrection of my left drawing hand