Engins (Machinery), series of 12, ink pen on graph paper, 39 x 28 cm each, 2012

The principle of the reproduction grid is diverted in my series of drawings. The combined use of the graph paper with the principle of scale allows reducing oversized machines into reproducible technical representations, plans. However, these representations are a degenerate form of the technical drawing : a drawing of an exact form in the aim of manufacturing of an object which reveals only the comic of its outline. The light line of the fountain pen is put in tension with the heaviness, the massive nature of the machines which it represents. Results a fragility, a collapse, a funny ruin.

« It is always funnier with drawings» François 1st, extract from the Verse composed in Spain