Kalos, Skopein, Beauty in Change
The kaleidoscope has inspired many writers and philosophers. Insofar as it has both a "finite" number of elements but a number of combinations that go to infinity. You can create an unimaginable number of layouts by simply moving the objects that are there. The image that we create also illustrates the idea that it is not the elements that make the whole thing, but the form that it takes. The light that arrives behind the kaleidoscope transforms colors and shapes in a vivid and lively way. The motif thus recreated by the visitor is unique and personal.
Like Buddhism's idea that everything is ephemeral, the kaleidoscope can be seen as a metaphor for life. It thus gives an image reconciling the apparently opposite terms of permanence and change, it somewhat expresses our rhythm of life passing from a permanent passive mode to a changing active mode. New encounter, new job, new technology, everything is changing around us. So looking at the beautiful through a kaleidoscope is a bit like a way of seeing life, we must take the time to stop to appreciate its richness and complexity.
The dynamism of precursors
The dynamism of the precursors is a work of constructivist inspiration where its forms and its bright colors seem to be entangled with each other. This work expresses all the dynamism and creative energy found in the Aylmer sector.
It pays tribute to the residents of the sector who have shaped it and who continue to do so so well.
grow together
The sculpture suggests the inclusion of people around us for a better cohabitation starting with the Me and ending with Them (see drawings). It is an interactive sculpture where the visitor is invited to pose his figure in the last facial space, the ME. I chose to put the two official languages for a specific purpose of integrating the two host cultures.
This sculpture, which breaks down into 6 planes in 6 different personal pronouns, is a work of nearly 2 meters in height, that is to say the height of a man. As if to recall the concept of set and inclusion in mathematics, the first base, the self, is the central point for a better social cohabitation.
In addition, seen in profile, the sculpture also refers to a megaphone, symbolizing the desire to be heard.