MurmurationsTRIPTYCH
Recycled leather woven on aluminum frame250 × 60 × 3 cm
Suspended between sky and memory, Murmurations captures the instant when thousands of birds become a single living body. This triptych translates into matter and light the phenomenon of synchronized flight: those aerial ballets in which each individual dissolves into the collective breath.
Across a frame of aluminum, strips of recycled leather interlace and vibrate. Each fragment is a wing, each crossing a wingbeat. Together they form a wave that moves through the three panels as a murmuration moves through the sky. Without beginning, without end. The palette drifts from gold toward silver in a slow, sovereign gradient: the gold of the living turning into the silver of the eternal.
Behind this contemporary gesture stands a very old memory. In the tradition of Romanian rugs, the woven bird is never simply a bird, it is the soul, sufletul, rising light at the moment of passing. To weave a bird is to weave a prayer.
Murmurations inherits this wisdom. Hundreds of strips, matter given a second life, become so many souls in flight, anonymous and bound together, individual and fused. In three panels, like a secular altarpiece, the work poses a silent question: where does the one end, and the whole begin?
Project Date: 2026
Location: Paris, France