Extra – lorraine thomas dev

Collateral work

The experimental aspect of my collateral work is crucial in the development of my practice. It includes artworks made in different material, mood and mode of action. They are the sketch diagram made in two lines, the ‘book painting’, the storyboard and 3D models.

Le Palimpseste

The palimpsest is the collective memory of the workshop. On this wall I have painted, carved, and written; the children from the Wednesday workshop have also left their marks, as well as a few guests. A living work in perpetual transformation, a sharing of space.

The diagram on the street It can be fleeting, like the constellation of lights in the photo above. It is an arrangement, a diagram of light. Children are chasing after shapes as if they can be caught. This makes me think that every such diagram is of a temporary state, which is perhaps why the lines of the diagram (and perspective lines) lead into the past for me. When I take pictures in the street my aim is to record materials and to ‘frame’ new diagrams into a surface.

La Marelle

There’s the drawn diagram and the plan that I associate with the architecture, the one that’s easy to read for the builders, like ready to use, and which the construction workers will rely on.

Audience (vidéo)

An insect is visiting a new ‘painting territory’. The AUDIENCE is following the insect journey along and across the surfaces, imagining looking, measuring, stepping back, and also feeling the surface with its tiny feet. Time is de-compressed, vision and habits are challenged .