(Night) & Nap Drawings 38 - Portrait made eyes closed Drawing

For many years I worked without trying to exhibit. There were nevertheless small and "big" exhibitions. Like being selected with a group of friends for a parallel exhibition at the Dokumenta 8 in Kassel in 1987: International exhibition "Gruppenkunstwerk" (collective art work). Then long years with my Daily Geologies (work realized over 12 years on a day-to-day basis), unexhibitable, given the concept itself = each day the "layer" or deposit covers that of the day before - in the end the paper and paint form a block of several dozen centimeters or more. I continued to work, to experiment, to fill in notebooks as if I were filling in a perpetual diary, to wander from one field to another: photography, writing, then to the design of artists' books (where I learned a little about bookbinding). Since a few years with Internet I show my work. Virtual encounters that have led to real exhibitions (UK Polarama), in Australia and also in France. ----------------------------------------- How to define my work? Color? Black & White? Materials? Or simply graphic work evoking sometimes engraving? A game of back and forth between all that. A bipolarity of expression sometimes confusing that can unfold in long spirals of writing to burst elsewhere in another form as the book-objects or even ... So to simplify = I keep 3 words: Writing, Spiral, Weft. ------------------------------------------------ I draw with my eyes closed what I cannot see with my eyes open. PB ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Pendant de longues années j'ai travaillé sans chercher à exposer. Il y a eu malgré tout des petites et "grandes" expos. Comme de se trouver sélectionnée avec un groupe d'amis pour une exposition en parallèle à la Dokumenta 8 à Kassel en 1987 : Exposition internationale "Gruppenkunstwerk" (Oeuvre d'art collective). Puis de longues années avec mes Géologies Quotidiennes (travail réalisé sur 12 ans au jour le jour) in-exposables, étant donné le concept lui-même = chaque jour la "couche" ou le dépôt recouvre celui de la veille - au final le papier et la peinture forment un bloc de plusieurs dizaines de centimètre voire plus. Je continuais à travailler, à expérimenter, à remplir des carnets comme si je remplissais un journal intime perpétuel, à me promener d'un domaine à l'autre: photographie, écriture, puis à la conception de livres d'artistes (où j'ai appris un peu la reliure).