The Graces – Rose
7 in / 18 cm
Imagine a world of abundance where all the inhabitants are robust and plump. The pace of life is slow and gently follows the seasons. Every woman bears the name of a flower.
It is summer, five p.m., when birds fly in slow motion. In the field, two young women are reading. In the background, men are returning from the fields. Young Marguerite, with a single ribbon on her shoulders, can’t hold back her exuberance and is looking toward the happy cortege. With her hat at her feet, Rose, the wiser of the two, keeps her eyes on her book.
Then Marguerite very softly begins whispering secrets in Rose’s ear. And life goes on, ever so peacefully.
Marguerite and Rose are sold separately but can also be delivered on the same granite because they were designed together.
Anecdote
In 1997, I got a phone call from Ms. Janette Bertrand, the prolific Quebec writer. She was writing a TV movie on obsession with weight. In the film, a woman on her nth diet meets a sculptor who will help her see her own beauty.
Albert Millaire plays the sculptor and Pauline Lapointe plays the role of the woman tortured by her weight. The sculptor in the story has a predilection for big women.
I produced five sculptures for this movie. I truly wanted to meet this challenge, to finally show that sensuality does not belong only to the skinny.
Treatment
Bronze (7in/18cm). The skin is worked with ferric nitrate. The hair is black. Different acids were used to obtain the colour in the other elements, including the hat, book and ribbon.
A series of eight and four artist’s proofs.
