Les Eaux des mondes / Waters of the worlds (Blue / state 3) Artwork

This series of prints comes from the same unique matrix where, from state to state, the engraved drawing evolves, transforms, intensifies, blossoms and disappears little by little like a water flower would wither from beauty. Based in part on scientific observation, supported by the research of Theodore Schwenk, a hydrodynamicist, these works speak of the movements of water and the pathways of blood in the body. It is a question of appearance/disappearance where the immobile is born of the mobile, of the instant that marks the matter. At the time of the interference of these waves - water/blood - of various lengths, appear motives, models, created by the pure movement; in their crossing, forms arise in space... the liquid element contains in advance the forms of movements which the living beings use to build their body. From these free observations and without preconceived ideas of the movement of the fluids, one feels that it is made a metamorphosis of the thought; this one becomes more capable to seize the living one. In Waters of the World series, the artist transformed the logic of engraving. Whereas engraving usually means a series of identical prints, in Waters of the worlds, Hélène Hibou introduces evolutions on the printing plate, then adds metal paper collages, for each and every piece of art, in order to create unique, graphically richer and richer, works of art. This results in a series of 33 unique engravings.

Mixed Media:Paper on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22 W x 29.9 H x 0.8 D in

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