LA GRÂCE: MUSANDAM NIGHTS

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.

MUSANDAM NIGHTS is a luminous dreamscape — a golden reverie drawn from the memory of a star-swept night where land meets sea in hushed communion. The surface shimmers with woven fragments of gilded leather, catching light like wind dancing across dunes. This tactile field is alive with movement, texture, and the quiet pulse of something eternal.

A pale moon, round and serene, rises above a dark band of sea and sky. This celestial dome is formed with pebble-like mosaic stones — a deliberate contrast to the metallic weave — anchoring the piece in both cosmos and earth. Above, indigo beads glint like constellations scattered across a velvet horizon.

Below the moon’s gaze, a reclining figure unfolds from the mosaic, carved gently from mother-of-pearl tones and soft green shards. Her face, delicate and half-veiled in gold, rests against the night like a sacred offering. She becomes landscape — both spirit and sand — dissolving the boundary between being and place.

The work weaves together opposites: the tactile and the ephemeral, the earthly and the divine, memory and presence. Musandam Nights speaks in silence, a golden lullaby in which every thread and stone remembers light.

Project Date: 2024
Location: Paris, France