Putting a pebble in your pocket during a walk, collecting sand on vacation, choosing the flattest possible pebble to try for a perfect skip, these are ordinary gestures. Yet these discreet, often trivial acts reveal an emotional connection to the places we pass through and a desire to preserve a trace of a moment lived.
Through my practice of painting and writing, I seek to explore what these acts of collecting reveal. The pebble becomes at once an object of memory, a fragment of landscape, and a traveling companion. The gaze directed at these (extra)ordinary elements shifts to reveal the emotional and poetic weight they hold.
Collecting thus becomes a way to slow down and make time to observe our surroundings attentively.