Calette is a wink to the “Wedding Globe”. Wedding globes used to be offered to young couples for their marriage. You can find in it some memories of the wedding as the flowers or decorations. The object used to evolve during the life of the couple, the decorations have specific meanings, triangulars, mirrors for the fecundity, birds to the children's etc.. Through the years the object is becoming a small cabinet of curiosity. The Wedding Globe was very popular in 1900 , and even if today this object has almost disappeared from homes, some still existed.
Calette ( nickname of my mother) is a tribute to this poetical object which almost disappeared. I did build my own Globe with meaningful items. The background is coming from oyster bags on which I did some embroidery with silver yarn. The bag was found on the beach near my childhood house and I chose to use it as a grid. I mixed the grid with silver embroidery and a piece of broken mirror.The transparent globe comes from plastic beer barrels. The structure around the light is made from paper coming from old ads and then painted. This light and every piece in it was made by materials I had close to me. This is a track of what a 30 year old woman in a small town in France has in her everyday life.
