LA GRÂCE: MURMURED PRAYERS

RECYCLED LEATHER WEAVING ON ALUMINUM STRUCTURE, CONTEMPORARY MOSAIC, HANDWRITTEN TEXT

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.

In Murmured Prayers, devotion takes the form of a vibrant tapestry — a sacred textile ablaze with life and reverence. Strips of reclaimed orange leather, woven into a dense, rhythmic pattern, recall both the intimacy of craft and the exuberance of flame. The edges flicker with fringed movement, as though the work breathes or pulses softly in prayer.

Two golden crosses emerge from the weave like relics, composed of convex mirrored elements that invite reflection — both literal and spiritual. Between them, glimmers of gold and fragments of script peek through the lattice, echoing whispered invocations hidden on the reverse: handwritten prayers to the Virgin, secret yet present, embedded in the very structure of the piece.

This is not a silent prayer, but a living one — textured, tactile, insistently luminous. The mosaic elements shimmer against the coarse vitality of the leather, balancing opulence and humility, the celestial and the earthly. Murmured Prayers is both offering and witness — a personal altar where matter becomes memory, and craft becomes communion.

Project Date: 2024
Location: Paris, France