PERSONAL STATEMENT - NOTES DE TRAVAIL

ABOUT MY ARTWORK

I create a wide array of artwork in many mediums. Most of my work, though, I create using ink, oil, acrylic paint, found scraps of paper and WORDS, and PHOTOGRAPHY.

My artwork aims to explore the shifting and often precarious balance which exists between the written word and the VISUAL IMAGE. I play around with STORIES and PICTURES, how we understand them, how they affect our thoughts and memory and how they affect my own life and emotions. In playing with these stories I exploit and explore the ways in which narratives are constructed.

When I'm creating my artwork, I like to mix COLLAGE, writing and photography. I use «wordboxes » and « pictureboxes » as raw material. I also use old books, maps, blueprints, scale drawings…any printed material. I create collage-paintings and I practice performance-writing in the "DADA" movement style.

With my VISUAL POETRY works, I like to show the relationship between the words as a SIGN and the meaning's attached the same word (the relationship between signifier and signified). I like to explore how words can be read on many different levels and how these reading can lead to a global meaning.

To present my work, I find that PUBLIC READINGS are a wonderful way to explore the emotional energy that exists between me as artist and the public as a spectator. I feel that my art reaches its potential when I perform for an audience. When others can feel the sound of my VOICE and when my WORDS become emotions, I sense a profound CONNECTION with my listeners.

ON SATURDAY DECEMBER 20th AT FILLE de JOIE, BROOKLYN, NY

For this one off event, i will read "The Story of the Booted Amazon" in french and english. I will show although some collage and pictures about this work.


To see the invitation : [link]

LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO STAY

CHERCHE UN TOIT

Hello everybody !

That's it ! I bought today my ticket to New York.
I will fly with Lufthansa from Marseille via Frankfurt…

Well, now i'm lookink for a nice place to stay, a room, a place to share. I have a special budget for the accodomation.

I will stay three weeks from the 4th til the 24th of september.

If you have something for me…

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Salut tout le monde !

Bon me voilà avec un billet d'avion en poche et maintenant je cherche un toit…
Si quelqu'un a un tuyau, une proposition à me faire, je suis preneuse… J'ai un budget raisonnable pour l'hébergement;

j'attends vos annonces et bonnes nouvelles

Thanks - Merci

Catherine

FESTIVAL DE CARNETS DE VOYAGE - 6,7,8 JUIN - BREST - FRANCE

Voilà, le festival aura bientôt lieu, les 6, 7 et 8 juin prochains en Bretagne.

Les Marseillais réunis dans le collectif "Les Transbordeurs" seront bientôt prêts à partir… Bien sûr, je montrerai mon travail sur New York et je lirai dans une chambre d'hôtel…

PLus d'infos ici : [link]


The Marseillais and I, "The transbordeurs", are almost ready to go for showing our works in Brest (Britany)… I will show my works about NYC and i will read in an hotel room÷

To read more : [link]

POETICAL VISIONS OF NEW YORK

Publication d'un reportage "mot & photosensible" sur le site du journal du Figaro de ma vision poético-urbaine de New York.

Publication online on the newspaper website Le Figaro : brief poetical visions of New York.

Textes et images / Text and pictures.

Pour découvrir le reportage / To discover :

"ECLATS DE NEW YORK" : [link]