Resting Row I — 2026 Collage of acrylics on paper, artist frame 30 x 25 x 2,5 cm
Resting Row II — 2026 Collage of acrylics on paper, artist frame 40 x 30 x 2,5 cm
Resting Row III — 2026 Collage of acrylics on paper, artist frame 40 x 30 x 2,5 cm
Resting Row V — 2026 Acrylics on linen and aluframe 150 x 150 x 4 cm
Provence, at the end of June 2026. They went looking for the region's famous unhurried light. A companion with a torn Achilles tendon, operated the day before they left almost changed plans but neither wanted to cancel a vacation longed for so long. A series was already taking shape and needing to be documented. They left as planned, but in chaos. What followed was, technically, a holiday. Paradise and its opposite shared the same rented terrace for a week, and neither one ceded ground.
Resting Row takes its name, not without irony, from the two sun loungers on that terrace that came with the house in Saint-Étienne-du-Grès. They were tried once. They were unusable, offering no comfort and no rest.
They will remain decorative until their removal. The pool, a few steps further, went untouched for an entirely different reason: swimming was, for the time being, not an option. The result is a single photograph, worked into five versions in shifting registers of warmth, rose through to a chalky beige, then sliced into vertical strips and reassembled slightly out of true. The image moved but everything around it froze.
Seen now, the row of two empty chairs reads less like a record of rest than a monument to its absence, two pieces of garden furniture doing a very convincing impression of a normal holiday.
La Brasserie du Commerce I-VIII — 2026
Collage of acrylics on paper, artist frame
40 x 30 x 2,5 cm
La Brasserie du Commerce works from a single image too: the shadow its own lettering throws across the pediment, photographed one town over in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on the Place de la République, over a late lunch beside a children's carousel playing old French chansons on a loop. This, they decided in that moment, was the real Provence. The photograph recurs across eight works, each a different zoom, then sliced apart and recombined with its own other versions until the subject stops being a café front and starts being an alphabet, a series that began as a late lunch and ended, more or less, as a study in typography.
Resting Row and La Brasserie du Commerce are only the first images to leave that vacation behind. Provence gave more than a terrace and a lunch, and the rest of it is still working its way onto paper and canvas. What's here is a beginning, not a summary. Not yet.
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