In these pieces, I am working with the relationship between elements of drawing and the surrounding exhibition space. In these cases, the wall becomes my sheet of paper and elements of drawing become different materials: paper, wood, fabric, polystyrene, adhesive vinyl, etc., all put in play to initiate poetic relationships with the space. This exercise leads me to reflect on the play of tensions, like tension and synergy, that occur together, like two sides of the same coin: opposites, yet needing one another in order to exist. These opposites take on the name of two Greek deities in Nietzche’s philosophy: “It is in connection with Apollo and Dionysus, the two art-deities of the Greeks, that we learn that there existed in the Grecian world a wide antithesis, in origin and aims, between the visual art of the shaper, the Apollonian, and the non-visual art of music, that of Dionysus.” It is there, in the tension between artistic impulses as opposite as Apollo and Dionysus, that I find a prolific space for creation.
