“ Eels or vuivres but monsters, dangerous, and venomous vipers,
maybe snakes with rows of teeth. Out of the lips, through the nostrils,
from the pupils and into the ears or posted as guards on our foreheads.”

An obsolete world of symbols slowly decays. While presenting themselves as visual stories, the meaning of the images is elusive, almost lost. Figures and lines slip in and out of dimensions and materials—sometimes flat, sometimes voluminous; sometimes in ephemeral paper, and sometimes in enduring plastic; sometimes free, sometimes constricted; and so on. The work is a hybrid that attempts to hold these opposites and dualities together. The symbols are inherited from ancient iconography of the mountainous Auvergne in France. In celebration of change and as a provocation to the local conservative culture, they take on new titillating forms and suggestive poses. The amorphous bodies spread across the space, swallowing and being swallowed by their frames, dissolving into landscapes. There is an ecstasy in
surrender. Exploring and transforming the remains of a decaying culture in its final stages might be an attempt to add a small capricious spark to its quieting fire.