Cendrine Rovini: delicate and disturbed

I stumbled across the work of Cendrine Rovini, and can’t get enough of it. Her drawings are small, airy, beautiful and unsettling. Her girls exist in a secret world full of fur, tears, blood, twigs, rituals and transformation – in her words, metamorphosis. They feel very personal, very intimate and raw. Go to her website to go through her stunning portfolio. You can also purchase original artwork from her etsy shop.

Le bonheur de fermer les yeux pendant la chute

From her artist statement: My work fights against the frozen imaginary of the Unique which only blossoms in violence and exclusion and in the obsession in truth or progress. Metamorphosis belongs to the multiple, to the becoming as perhaps defined by Deleuze when he described the animal-becoming, plant-becoming, woman-becoming: it is not imitation or identification but poetic scrum which makes evident that worlds are fertilized and grown on each other, swollen with life, matter and invisible.

La naissance de Bonnemort

Les semis

 

 

 

studio update: shells and vintage photography

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Here are some subpar photos of a couple of works-in-progress. I have found the most wonderful sumi ink in the world – I will definitely post about it in the near future! It’s so rich and black and smells like it was freshly ground… mmmmm!