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Cartographies de l’Invisible # 10
Artwork
Textile installation
Year
2025
Dimensions
200 x 200 x 200 cm (width x height x depth; variable)
Edition
Unique (1/1)
Materials
Cottons — organic and fair-trade, sourced from traditional varieties and production methods.
Cotton from one of France’s last spinning mills, certified EPV (cotton grown in Asia) · Falé cotton (hand-spun and grown without irrigation in the Sine-Saloum region, Senegal) · Pakucho cotton (a native Peruvian variety, naturally coloured—undyed) · Recycled cotton, produced without water or chemicals (Polish family-run company)
Flax — 100% grown and processed in France, to help sustain a traditional textile industry and craft.
Linen fabric · Raw linen fibers · Unbleached linen thread
Other plant fibers— produced ethically (socially and environmentally) by women’s cooperatives and small rural communities in India, using traditional, chemical-free methods.
100% pure bamboo yarn, made from bamboo fibre (not bamboo viscose) · Raw wild hemp, hand-harvested · Raw wild hemp, hand-harvested and hand-spun
Wild-foraged plant matter — hand-gathered from the environments around me and incorporated directly into the weave.
Bay laurel · Bulrush · Soft rush · Wild carrot · Yellow iris (marsh iris)
Wood — sourced in the Gard département, from sustainably managed French forests.
Olive · Pine
Colours
Natural dyes (plants, fungi and earth pigments foraged, reclaimed or locally grown through small-scale farming), with no commercially sourced mineral or metallic mordants.
Agrimony · Dyer's Coreopsis · Ochres and bauxites gathered in Les Baux-de-Provence (13) · Onion · Osage orange · Shaggy bracket (Inonotus hispidus) · Sulphur cosmos · Tea · Walnut
Craftmanship
Hand-spinning on a spinning wheel · Handweaving on a rigid-heddle loom · Natural dyeing (with no commercially sourced mineral or metallic mordants) · Woodworking (stretching/mounting on stretcher bars and framing)
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