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Cartographies de l’Invisible # 5

Artwork

Textile framed wall piece

Year

2025

Dimensions

38 x 38 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 and hand-spun

Wools — French wools, sourced from identified farmers who work with respect for animals and their ecosystems.

Arles Merino (from Bouches-du-Rhône, FR) · Raïole des Cévennes (from Bouches-du-Rhône, FR) · Valais Blacknose (from Bouches-du-Rhône)

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 silk “tubes” (from silk reeling waste during spinning) · Recycled, hand-spun silk (from saris)

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.

Avocado · Birch · Dyer's madder · Mimosa · Ochres and bauxites gathered in Les Baux-de-Provence (13) · Onion · Pomegranate

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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