Dédale,
Pine sandpit - Breton beach sand,
The sandbox is a play area that harkens back to early childhood. Who has never created hills and castles or made the imaginary discovery of treasures buried in this mini beach reproduction.
Very quickly the sandbox rather reminded me of the archaeologist's field of investigation.
Passionate about the traces left by man since prehistoric times, I secretly dreamed of making a great discovery one day ... Particularly intrigued by Egyptian and Greek mythology, the stories and transformations of the gods held no secrets for me.
In the sand of this installation, no castle, but the layout of a labyrinth. The “pattern” of the labyrinth can be found in many cultures throughout the ages. It can be found in India, for example, in a welcome drawing called "kolam", a symbol of protection and fertility that women draw every day in front of their doorstep with salt, lime or colored sand. The most famous labyrinth is perhaps the one designed by Daedalus, considered the first great artist and architect of antiquity, who was to hide the minotaur there, the fruit of Pasiphae's adultery, of which his ingenuity is at the very origin. scandal ...
In 1962, Lévi-Strauss shared a similar motif in "La Pense Sauvage": a diagram he defined as the most complex representation of a kinship system shared by the natives of Ambrym ...
This labyrinth motif has stood the test of time and has taken on different symbolism, both a protective design, it also represents a threshold between life and death and the obstacles encountered in life. This mental and physical space continues to stimulate minds in search of "thought traps".
This sandbox is for me an invitation to search the ground in search of the origin of things. The labyrinth traced in the sand if it is a trap, yet seems to be able to be swept away with the back of the hand or by a gust of wind ...