Cycle of sketches made in NYC, accompanied by a soundtrack. To grab the vibes of this one thousand facets' City.
Summer 2016
"In 1930, Gandhi had achieved a hugely popular success with his triumphal Salt March. The beleaguered powers retaliated with a series of mass imprisonments. Gandhi spent nine months in prison, but it was a victory. Sixty thousand prisoners would be released with him.After his release, he made a solemn vow not to return to his Sabarmati Ashram, near Ahmedabad, whilst India was not liberated. He travelled, as if to reinforce this idea, over and over again, that the struggle was not going to play out in the cities, but in the villages of rural India. He had already been developing this idea for years. More than a theory, it was a shining certainty that made him walk to meet his countrymen."
Narrative of Bernard Jagodzinski
Participation in fanzines for children : Cuistax (n°0-1-2-3) and Biscoto (n°3)
Cuistax (http://cuistax-cuistax.blogspot.be) is a new illustration fanzine for children, resulting from the collaboration of a dozen illustrators based in Brussels.
It is printed in the traditional way (by risograph - at chez rosi: http://chezrosi.wordpress.com/), in two colours.
Available in bookstores, in Brussels currently (Tropismes Jeunesse, Ptyx Bookstore and Candide Bookstore...)
n°0 : froid (cold)
n°1 : jeunes pousses (seedlings)
n°2 : été indien (Indian Summer)
n°3 : En route ! (On the road !)
"Chance brought me face to face with it, a forgotten statue in the Place Saint-Jean.Like a vanishing ghost, it compelled me to rewrite its history.I examined locations...people, books."
As I turned the corner of a Brussels square, a statue caught my attention and my curiosity. Who was it ?As my research progressed, I discovered the story of Gabrielle Petit, heroine of the Great War. Her glorified destiny and her personal story led me to understand how a myth is created. The work of cross-checking information and investigations at the scenes of her life have made this project a reading in layers. The technique of overlaying drawings on tracing paper corresponds to this reflection.
An animation was realized from this comic strip : http://vimeo.com/94388644
A tactile book produced with the assistance of ONA (National Charity for the Blind).
Embossments, stencils, sheets of tracing paper, on the subject of the herbarium.
"The garden gate was open...
Would you like one of my fruits?, the fig tree asks me.
It's just that the path in the garden is long, you'll need it."
Six unpublished texts written specifically for the "Fureur de lire" (Passion for reading) by authors and illustrators, to be found at participating outlets or can be obtained free of charge upon request, for teachers especially : http://www.fureurdelire.cfwb.be/index.php?id=11687
Hauteurs (Heights) : a hot air balloon trip with a giraffe on board - for children, and adults too.
In the African Savannah, a giraffe dreams...
