OE_18_5, OE_18_18, OE_18_2, 2018, pigment, ink, acrylic, clay on paper, 28x42 cm

Olea Europea is a series of drawings on paper created during a residency at the Fondation Hartung Bergman in Antibes, France, in September 2018.
In the Foundation's garden of hundred-year-old olive trees, I built a hammock structure to collect branches cut by the gardener and the clay used to protect the leaves. The drawings were created by the imprint left on the sheets of paper after weeks exposure to the elements.
When Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman built their studios on this field of olive trees, they went around the trees to respect their location and the lay of the land.
The series of drawings captures the temporality of the daily swing of the hammock, an object that symbolizes a suspended space-time, like a cocoon, a place of metamorphosis.

OE_18_5, OE_18_18, OE_18_2, 2018, pigment, ink, acrylic, clay on paper, 28x42 cm

Olea Europea is a series of drawings on paper created during a residency at the Fondation Hartung Bergman in Antibes, France, in September 2018.
In the Foundation's garden of hundred-year-old olive trees, I built a hammock structure to collect branches cut by the gardener and the clay used to protect the leaves. The drawings were created by the imprint left on the sheets of paper after weeks exposure to the elements.
When Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman built their studios on this field of olive trees, they went around the trees to respect their location and the lay of the land.
The series of drawings captures the temporality of the daily swing of the hammock, an object that symbolizes a suspended space-time, like a cocoon, a place of metamorphosis.