Individual Residencies
2021 | Marianne Charlebois
I illustrated a version of the book Le Drap Blanc by Céline Huyguébart. This is an autobiographic inquiry where the author goes looking for her deceased father, searching for who he really was.
I have pictured the common events and objects that represent the complexity of a human being, and what is left when they are gone. The illustrations I make are mixed media drawings that combine the screen printing process with watercolour, coloured pencil and graphite techniques.
To represent what grief might feel like inside, I use the concept of repetition in both my imagery and the content. As Huyguébart writes, “It is this loss that started the writing of this book, this absence left by the dead, with which those who survive weave fictions to pass through”.