"Borderline- Where two systems meet"
Material is in the centre of my artistic preoccupation.
Due to a strange coincidence I happened to visit one of the fastest melting glaciers of Switzerland.
At its decreasing ice edge a small lake collected water of milky blue color due to the deposit of granitic sediments .
The fast retracting movement of the glacier provoked the alteration of the granit bedrock leaving a relatively pure sand of divers granulometric particles behind.
I collected this sediments which for me materialize the idea of the edge in multiple ways.
To my surprise the glacier sand turned out to be rich in feldspar and silica transforming itself during the fusion process (as a glimpse to the melting ice) into shiny blistering particles.
Working with a two piece plaster mould I wished to underline the idea of a meeting point through the moulds’ » borderlines » joining the two faces of the piece creating moreover a contrast between the roughly structured surface of the inner mould and the polished surface of the clean-cut mould’s edge.
The melting glacier is a symbol of an irretrievable transition which edgy extinction we witness in a almost everyday slow-motion .
The glaciers’ edge seen in a biological sense is an ecotone, a zone of dynamique tension were two systems meet.
Due to the glacial polish of the moving glacier the sand-ice-water blasted surface of the rock appearing underneath is extremely smooth in contrast to the rough environnement of the ice.
My work Borderline is created in resonance with these reflexions.
I wanted to illustrate quite literally the idea of a meeting point where something new would occur through the adjonction of material to my raw material clay.