This work is inspired by the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau. I created it using walnut stain on recycled cardboard.

The choice of medium: recycled cardboard, with its ridges, its embossed indentations, and the traces of its past life. Just as Rameau worked within inherited forms—the suite of Baroque dances—I start with a material that is already inhabited, already marked by time. The cardboard is not a blank canvas; it is already a memory.

The walnut stain is sprayed, splashed, and dragged. We can clearly distinguish several types of gestures that correspond to the different movements of the “Suite in A”

Rameau is the composer of ornaments: trills, arpeggios. In my painting, the fine secondary splashes—those micro-droplets that accompany each major impact—are exactly that: embellishments. They are not accidental; they are the natural consequence of the gesture, just as the Baroque ornament arises from the actual note and surrounds it without ever replacing it