Pierre noir & craie blanche

Holding a stick of black stone or white chalk constrains the gesture, whereas the paper format, which is body-sized, incites it to spreading. The smallness of the tool compels to nearness while so as to see the whole drawing, moving back paces is necessary. In between these inconsistencies the drawing is progressing, between improvisation and calculation, between laisser-faire and refraining, between precision of the composition and the quest of shapelessness.

The line shuns the contour, the drawing follows the gap and the gap infers the stroke. Adding up often comes to undoing and letting emerge to burying. In the oscillation of the eye and the body, space is experienced through its duration: an unstable surface which keeps on forming itself by breaking up.