MANON SAUVAGE
CREATION PROCESS
À propos
Being part of Nature
Spending time in Nature, listening to the musical sounds and filling up my eyes with gorgeous colors and sacred natural patterns is one of my greatest pleasures in life.
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I learn to recognize species, learn the medicinal properties of plants or just try to understand how each plant, stone or soil, is offering us possibilities for creation.
I work with small quantities, by hand, with the greatest respect for the selected plant or stone, always taking into account their availability and balance in their environment.
Sacred plants, sacred fibers
Creating with local plants is a tribute to Nature and the ancestral wisdom for increasing my awareness and helping me in my healing process.
The choice of each fiber is important as the creation will embody the essence of the plant and tell a story related to it.
In the farm, the banana trees are part of the plants we can use for food and creation. When bananas are harvest, the pseudo-stem is cut and can be used for creation.
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The pseudo-stem consists of a central core with tightly wrapped leaf sheaths. For my creation work, I like to unwrap those leaf sheaths, cut, delaminate and dry them.
With this technique we can get different textures, depending on the layers inside the leaf sheaths. The fibers can also be extracted directly to make threads and paper pulp.
Protective plant,
purifying thread
I like using threads made with fibers from plants, hoping to incorporate a tiny part of their properties into the artwork.​​
For example, the Sansevieria trifasciata plant, well known for purifying the air, offers a thin thread of long, shiny white fibers.
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Almost invisible, this thread embodies the purifying abilities of the plant.
In my work, I like to weave raw local fibers to reconnect human beings and Nature.
Weaving a bound
between
Human
and Nature
I often use the Hibiscus Elatus as my warp.
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The Majagua - Hibiscus Elatus - is our sacred tree, providing us with clear spring water in our everyday life at the farm.
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When processing his excellent quality fibers, we can feel their strength while admiring their beautiful reddish-brown natural tone.
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I love transforming those fibers symbolizing Water, into threads and papers.
From seeds to plants,
from plants to fibers,
from fibers to papers.
Papers from love
light, water
and plants
​I make handmade paper from plants to balance my mothern rhythm of life by following natural cycles.
Stimulating all senses, this slow and meticulous handmade papermaking process invites us to reconnect to our ancestral universal knowledge.
​I like to dye my papers, fibers, textiles or threads with plants like thyme, rosemary, eucalyptus and laurel leaves, achiote seeds, onions or turmeric.
​Medicinal plants, healing colors
Those plants, well know for their medicinal properties as antibacterial, antifungal or anti-inflammatory; have been infusing their healing colors inside some of my threads, raw fibers and papers.
When nature teaches us art:
I feel like I am walking on a Stunning eternal sunset made by the soil! I love those gorgeous color shades, design and shapes.
Earth pigments: Colors telling stories
For some special artworks,
I transform soils and stones to make watercolours.
Those pigments are related to different landscapes, foraged with different friends at different moments.
Each of them carries a story, a memory of a beautiful place and moment. Each of them is consequently expressing his essence on the paper and the association of them is creating new stories through the artwork.
Giving light,
giving life
Taking pictures of those artworks is a way to keep a glimpse of a moment of the life of the artwork in dialogue with its environment.
It is a way to appreciate it through different lightnings, playing and dancing in the wind, and remembering that life should always be observed from different focus, through different lights, with different angles.
Letting the sunlight shine through the artwork gives it life. This changing light through the day shows us the hidden stories between strong and fragile areas, emptiness and fullness.
