T H E E A R T H A S A N E T W O R K
A mass of natural roots, collected and assembled like the memory of an underground network.
Red threads extend their branching paths towards the ground, making visible the invisible connections that link all living things.
The material ages, transforms, and gradually returns to the Earth.
A work about connections, flows, and what binds us beneath the surface.
E M E R G E N C E S — B E T W E E N S U R F A C E A N D D E P T H
Eight raw lava stones, numbered, form the starting point of this installation.
Each stone is inked and printed six times onto sheets of handmade paper from the Moulin du Got. With each impression, the ink is transferred and gradually depleted, while the imprint slowly fades. The forty-eight sheets thus form a sequence of states of the same stone, moving from presence towards disappearance.
Displayed as a curtain, they form a light and fragile suspended surface. Behind this surface, the stone — dense, raw, ancient — becomes the matrix of the trace.
On the floor, red threads connect each stone to its imprint, extending the original material towards its gradual disappearance on paper. In front of the curtain, the imprints are reworked in red India ink, like reactivated fragments, signs that persist.
The installation thus unfolds between surface and depth, presence and erasure, matter and memory.
Video made in 2023 in the Puy Mary mountain range.
It presents a series of drawings based on impressions of lava stones, known as “singing stones” or “humming stones.”
Updated and published online on 18 January 2025.
“Every research journey is a voyage, and the researcher is a traveler turning over each stone along the way, seeking the secrets hidden beneath appearances.”
Simon-Parneix
This work marks the beginning of my research into traces, imprints, and the living world. Here, the imprint still appears in its raw form, as the starting point of an exploration in which the trace is destined to be extended, transformed, and displaced.
R H I Z O M E
This video was made in the Limousin region of France in 2024.
It explores the circulation of the living world and spaces in constant transformation.
"From now on, humanity must think like a choreographer of the circulations of the living world, creating spaces that can dismantle and regenerate themselves like a rhizome."