dedicated to Didier Velty

Editions Lemoine

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Literally, stone egg.

In mineralogy, it is a limestone or iron oxide formed of spherical grains (compared to fish eggs).

The shape of this work is like concentric waves on water.

From an initial event (a brief sound), the circles (each of the basic motifs) widen, develop in such a way that each of these is constantly repeated and varied, sometimes rolled up, pleated on it -even, sometimes widely deployed.

The form therefore happens to be a succession of moments of different character, organically linked by their constant return.

And why Oolithe  ?

Perhaps because a work is a closed world, a small round object that you hold in the palm of your hand and that you constantly turn and turn.