For Patrick Piccinelli; the shore is a visual metaphor that expresses the constant exchange between the painter and the work he produces. Indeed; the waves of a lake (Piccinelli is Swiss; he lives very close to Lake Neuchâtel) arrive peacefully on the shore which therefore continually changes its appearance. This process fascinates the painter .Piccinelli by making this work on Arches paper; tells us about the gentle waves of a Swiss lake washing up on the sandy shore. The shore is a place where sand (earth element) mixes with lake water (aquatic element). The textures; the nuances; the dry and the wet are in perpetual transformation. For the painter this natural process is inspiring; it is for him a visual metaphor of the act of painting. The area drawn with pigmented ink represents the dry; the sand and the whole composition expresses this marvelous exchange between water and earth.