In itself, the pilgrimage is a journey to a sacred place. My work investigates the meaning of this journey, this labyrinth leading to the soul, to knowledge, which we often face in fear and confusion. Pilgrimages represent a very human need to make a physical action follow a spiritual action; the strong need for a shift, a change or for improvement. They represent the hope of discovering that we are indeed the children of some God, and that we may find in ourselves a scrap of divinity that gives our lives a different meaning.
PILGRIMAGES
To represent this notion, I use road maps which, by their nature, indicate a clear path to follow, or wallpapers with their logic and geometry. After some slight modifications, I cut these papers into strips and ramdomly re-assemble them, skipping all the points of reference and cancelling out the previous certainties. In this way, new, previously invisible paths appear possible, and great distances no longer seem so overwhelming.The chaos reassembles itself with an unexpected harmony, and a new heart appears in front of the confused eyes of the traveller, waiting for his next move.
In itself, the pilgrimage is a journey to a sacred place. My work investigates the meaning of this journey, this labyrinth leading to the soul, to knowledge, which we often face in fear and confusion. Pilgrimages represent a very human need to make a physical action follow a spiritual action; the strong need for a shift, a change or for improvement. They represent the hope of discovering that we are indeed the children of some God, and that we may find in ourselves a scrap of divinity that gives our lives a different meaning.
To represent this notion, I use road maps which, by their nature, indicate a clear path to follow, or wallpapers with their logic and geometry. After some slight modifications, I cut these papers into strips and ramdomly re-assemble them, skipping all the points of reference and cancelling out the previous certainties. In this way, new, previously invisible paths appear possible, and great distances no longer seem so overwhelming.The chaos reassembles itself with an unexpected harmony, and a new heart appears in front of the confused eyes of the traveller, waiting for his next move.
