Louis Blondiau
Perceptual landscapes

Forests: From Recognition to Relation

 

The process begins from a dark surface. Rather than adding form, I remove material—scratching into wet paint to release light. The marks accumulate into dense networks of fine lines. At close range, the viewer encounters a surface of incisions. At a distance, these marks reorganize into a coherent spatial experience. The forest appears not as a set of objects, but as a structure of relations.

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 As for the seascapes, I try to shift perception from recognition to relation. Not to name what we see, but to enter into its movement. Ultimately I believe that trying to be in the world as a subject looking at an object is a path that leads nowhere. It gives us the illusion we understand, but in truth it only places us outside.