This group of works is approaching space in a particular way: places where history has been erased to some extent, while continuity is assured by some simple visual elements. 

These drawings are dedicated to a particular place, a small town of Lavaur, a place in the South of France close to Toulouse, where I was an year ago. It was a place which has a significant history thread related to the existence of Cathars, where there was the castle of one of the medieval ladies, Dame Giraude de Laurac, who was killed by the armies of Catholics returned from crusades. The castle was destroyed almost completely.

The only visual remains existing over time were two colors: the pink-salmon of the bricks, specific to that area together with a particular blue, the blue pastel made out of the pastel  plant (woad/isatis tinctoria). The production of that particular pastel blue hue was so significant for the economical subsistance of the inhabitants, to such extent that in the 16th and 17th centuries it was called ‘the blue gold’.

The horizontal repetitive lines may remind the viewer either of the pastel blue window shutters and bricks of that area’s houses but also of the horizontal lines of the EKG, reminding of the dramatical death of the Cathars of that area.