Paraedeza (Persian rug), 2013
Poussière · 200 × 300 cm
Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers
A drawing in dust takes back the symbolic form of the Persian garden — a microcosm where the world is concentrated within a sacred perimeter. Paraedeza — a Persian word at the origin of the word “paradise” — refers to an enclosed, ordered space, which contains in miniature the order of the world. The extreme fragility of this drawing is in direct contrast with the power of the information contained in each grain: the dust organizes itself into a complex structure, like cosmic matter which, by the mere force of its organization, forms stars, planets, conscious beings. We ourselves are cosmic dust organized into consciousness. Each breath can erase it — and it is precisely this that makes it a living cosmos.