LA GRÂCE:
LIVING
ENERGIES
RECYCLED LEATHER WEAVING ON ALUMINUM STRUCTURE, CONTEMPORARY MOSAIC
100x50cm
LA GRÂCE series emerged during a time of deep spiritual unfolding — a sacred season in which the invisible thread of the divine became vivid, tender, and near. Each piece is a gesture of gratitude, a reverent bow toward the unseen, the mysterious fabric of existence.
In SPRINGTIME JOY, grace bursts forth through nature’s untamed bloom, an ecstatic hymn in color and form.
MURMURED PRAYERS carries hundreds of handwoven fragments, each one etched in silence with prayers to the Virgin — hidden on their reverse, like secrets nestled close to the heart.
In MUSANDAM NIGHTS, golden strands weave through alabaster marble, recalling a half-dreamed memory where star-strewn skies bend to kiss luminous waters.This series is my quiet testimony: that beneath the visible, beyond the tactile, all that exists is divine love.
The making, too, is an act of devotion. I developed my own technique for weaving salvaged leather remnants — breathing new life into the discarded. With the sensibility of a mosaicist, I treated these fragments as tesserae, threading them into a firm aluminum mesh. I’m often drawn spontaneously to a material, a color, a texture — not knowing at first how it will speak, only that it will. And in time, as with all sacred things, the way reveals itself.
A luminous mandala of quiet vitality, LIVING ENERGIES radiates from its center in waves of textured calm. Built from intricately woven strips of pale, recycled leather, the surface pulses with gentle rhythms — a visual echo of breath, of heartbeat, of the invisible forces that sustain us.
Eight organic forms orbit this woven universe, each a unique mosaic, like spirit-seeds floating on a soft current. These forms are delicate yet precise, composed of stone, ceramic, and glass fragments, nestled into outlines traced with gold and reclaimed zippers. They resemble leaves, wings, or pods — vessels of transformation suspended in serene rotation.
The neutral palette — whites, creams, soft greys and greens — amplifies a sense of clarity, allowing light to dance across the surface and animating the piece with a sense of perpetual emergence. There is no fixed direction here, only a continuous unfolding, a choreography of forms that whisper of growth, memory, and interconnection.
LIVING ENERGIES is a meditation on life’s unseen architectures — the flows, frequencies, and quiet intelligence of nature and spirit. Through humble materials reimagined with care, the piece invites the viewer into a space of stillness, where the sacred is woven into the everyday.
Project Date: 2024
Location: Paris, France