No Fedora / Sans chapeau Print

"NO FEDORA" by Elsa Chesnel. Graphite and Soft Pastels on Paper 2019, 16 x 12 in. (40.5 x 30.5 cm) Inspired by the street art of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, by their incredible infinity knot, and by their mesmerizing combination of colors. This should have been called "Mongolia..." Ready to hang. "Ghostlike/Vertige sur fond plat" is a fully bilingual collection of drawings born from my physical limitations and from the search for a new directions. It started on a late rainy night, creativity striking along with pain, forcing me to (temporarily) abandon my large in-progress Thin Green Line, and prompting reflections on lost things, disappeared people, and diminished abilities. It required me to dig out other skills i.e. my unused life drawing practice, and to explore the realm of academic drawing, but not without a spin of my own. As different as this collection might be, it still speaks the same language of superimpositions, trickery and poetry, and of visual and emotional impact. Full collection at