Trame 17 Painting

This piece of work belongs to the Trame series. It is worked with spatula, stale pigments and organic natural resin binder. The thick paper was hand made in a paper mill. It is glued on a plywood board. Wood frame The entire series « Trames » indicates a purification of the drawing that already figured in the precedent series (Labyrinth Cities - Urban Kilim) : lightening of the matter, of the impact on the eyes. The painting gives to see a memory, of what is left in itself - of what has been seen and that time and memory have rescinded or erased. Cara’s tonality is unique, nearly monochromatic. Her intention is keen to render the colours of the two cities : Fez’ Medina, close to her heart, and her hometown, Avignon, where she works. She thus establishes another bridge between the Papal City and the Soufi City by empha- sizing their architectural similitudes : their labyrinthic geometry and their bistre / grey colour.