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Cartographies de l’Invisible # 11
Artwork
Textile installation
Year
2025
Dimensions
125 x 200 x 200 cm
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.
Bulrush · Soft rush · True lavender · Yellow iris (marsh iris)
Wools — French wools, sourced from identified farmers who work with respect for animals and their ecosystems.
Arles Merino (from Bouches-du-Rhône, FR) · Brigasque (from the Alpes-Maritimes, FR) · Corsican (from Corsica)
Silks — produced ethically (socially and environmentally) by women’s cooperatives and small rural communities in India. All my silks are wild silks or Ahimsa (peace silk), harvested and sometimes hand-spun or recycled, with no chemicals, and kept in their natural colour.
Eri silk in naturally cream or copper tones (depending on the leaves the silkworm feeds on) · Raw forest Tassar silk · Recycled, hand-spun silk (from saris)
Wood — sourced in the Gard département, from sustainably managed French forests.
Pine · Walnut
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.
American pokeweed · Avocado · Bay laurel · Chestnut · Coffee · Dyeball (Pisolithus tinctorius) · Dyer's madder · Eucalyptus · Evernia (oakmoss lichen) · Hemp-agrimony · Indigo knotweed · Mimosa · Nettle · Oak · Onion · Osage orange · Passionflower · Pomegranate · Rosemary · Shaggy bracket (Inonotus hispidus) · Sorrel · St John’s wort · Terebinth (Pistacia terebinthus) · Turmeric · Walnut (tree)
Craftmanship
Felting · 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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