Micro-Macro (inks on paper)

Materials guide Sonia Haberstich. The water, paper, pigments. Time. The technique is simply discrete : large egg-shaped figures soaked in water on hand-made paper. The water is tinted with pigments, or pure, colorless. Time slips away, the water evaporates. A brush is dipped in ink of another color then touches softly the canvas surface that is still wet. The ink spreads, the paper absorbs; unpredictable puddles take shape. The puddles gradually dry, defined stains of colors settle on the surface- the small ones within the larger ones. Time, again, moults while waiting. The wait, the contemplation, the meditation anticipate the next gesture, the next stain, the next color. The whole is not, cannot be, premeditated. Each movement brings abou