"Daedalus" (230h-80-80, 2016) soft limestone, Montendre, Charente-Maritime ( France). Sculpture symposium on the theme of the labyrinth. Free, organic interpretation of an abstract, three-dimensional labyrinth.
Kâ-Ascension
"Kâ-Ascension" (160H-60-60, in 2017), Gard limestone, symposium des hommes et des pierres , Junas quarry (30), France. Free, abstract sculpture, work on hollowing out and research to reveal the sound aspect of stone. A tribute to Coltrane and the traditional Drum of Guadeloupe.
The Jaguar man
"The Jaguar man", for the Galaxie des Pierres Levées, in Crazannes. Les Lapidiales. Sculpture for a large-scale project to bring together 366 monumental monoliths, and represent all cultures around the world at an average rate of 6 sculptors in residence each year and on a different culture. I was awarded the prize to represent the Amerindian cultures of South America, in 2017...
The sculpture would aim to perceive first and foremost the face of the shaman, wearing the Jaguar mask. The Jaguar symbolizes the Earth, more or less stylized, blending in with the terrestrial monsters whose wide-open jaws allow the solar god to emerge. The side cones symbolize clairvoyance. Tattoos and scarification. They provide information on a person's social rank, and even their function, particularly in the case of priests. Reference: La Tolita and Palenque cultures.
"In his frantic, sublime quest to reinvent the boundaries of beauty in order to approach the spheres of the divine, the creator becomes a soothsayer poet. Esquisse d'une danse avec l'au-delà (Outline of a dance with the beyond) constantly plays out and re-enacts the primordial cosmogonies that celebrate man's communion with animal and plant creatures." René Daumal.
"The Jaguar man" ( limestone, 280h-80-80cm) created in 2017, as part of the "Galaxie des Pierres Levées" project in Crazannes (France), for the Lapidiales, on the theme of South American Amerindian
Tztzimime
"Tztzimime", (190h-80-80cm) 2017, Tepeji del Rio, Mexico, sculpture in local travertine. Female divinity from Aztec mythology.
Retour en Afrique
"Retour en Afrique" ( 190h-180cm wide) 2018, made in Laongo, Burkina Faso, on granite. Evocation of a fragmentary portrait half-mask half-woman, composed of bronze inlays in the eyes. To translate the deep connection to the continent, but also the question of roots, for people born of the exodus, the slave trade through the Caribbean or the Americas.
Crocodile Woman
"Crocodile Woman", (limestone, 240h-80-80) 2021, commune of Vix, Vendée ( France), sculpture for an art trail on the theme of vines and marshes. Metamorphosis between man and animal. A mythical world, but also paleontological research: less than 145 million years ago, at the same latitude, there was a completely different ecosystem, with 7 or 8 different varieties of crocodile. Climate variations called into question.
Sinuous hatching
"Sinuous hatching" (180h-180l-170p) 2021-2022. Ruschita marble, Masiuca, Romania. International marble sculpture symposium. A free, organic abstract model for the communion of peoples and peace. A kaleidoscope of form combinations, depending on the point of view.
Lambi Evolution
"Lambi Evolution" (Tuff bien ferme de Sainte-Anne, 250h-180l-150p cm, 2022), Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe's first stone sculpture symposium in the Caribbean. La Conque de Lambi, an aesthetic link between the different peoples and cultures of the Caribbean. The monumental sculpture is adorned with petrographs inspired by models from French Guiana, the Lesser and Greater Antilles, the Breton Neolithic, West Africa (scarifications, engravings on Ethiopian and Malian phallic steles) and Asian floral motifs (India).
The multiple past of the All-World thus engraved on the lambi conch shell becomes common: "to unite memories, to liberate them through each other, is to open the way to World Relation. (E. Glissant, Tous les jours de mai, 2008).
Sculpture symposium residency in Zimbabwe 2024,
with the participation of Rickson Zavare, Morgan Tago Tazvitya, Loraine Mamvura, Absheba Chidhawu, David Chinyama, Laïla Westergaard, Thomas Petit, et Erik Schwarzbart et Wiston Nyekete
Following the residency as well as the visit to different places of production and galleries, organization of the exhibition of our productions at the national gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare.
Production of two sculptures: “Free movement” in Green Opal Stone and “Authentic whitness” in Serpentine Spring Stone
Daedalus
"Daedalus" (230h-80-80, 2016) soft limestone, Montendre, Charente-Maritime ( France). Sculpture symposium on the theme of the labyrinth. Free, organic interpretation of an abstract, three-dimensional labyrinth.
Kâ-Ascension
"Kâ-Ascension" (160H-60-60, in 2017), Gard limestone, symposium des hommes et des pierres , Junas quarry (30), France. Free, abstract sculpture, work on hollowing out and research to reveal the sound aspect of stone. A tribute to Coltrane and the traditional Drum of Guadeloupe.
The Jaguar man
"The Jaguar man", for the Galaxie des Pierres Levées, in Crazannes. Les Lapidiales. Sculpture for a large-scale project to bring together 366 monumental monoliths, and represent all cultures around the world at an average rate of 6 sculptors in residence each year and on a different culture. I was awarded the prize to represent the Amerindian cultures of South America, in 2017...
The sculpture would aim to perceive first and foremost the face of the shaman, wearing the Jaguar mask. The Jaguar symbolizes the Earth, more or less stylized, blending in with the terrestrial monsters whose wide-open jaws allow the solar god to emerge. The side cones symbolize clairvoyance. Tattoos and scarification. They provide information on a person's social rank, and even their function, particularly in the case of priests. Reference: La Tolita and Palenque cultures.
"In his frantic, sublime quest to reinvent the boundaries of beauty in order to approach the spheres of the divine, the creator becomes a soothsayer poet. Esquisse d'une danse avec l'au-delà (Outline of a dance with the beyond) constantly plays out and re-enacts the primordial cosmogonies that celebrate man's communion with animal and plant creatures." René Daumal.
"The Jaguar man" ( limestone, 280h-80-80cm) created in 2017, as part of the "Galaxie des Pierres Levées" project in Crazannes (France), for the Lapidiales, on the theme of South American Amerindian
Tztzimime
"Tztzimime", (190h-80-80cm) 2017, Tepeji del Rio, Mexico, sculpture in local travertine. Female divinity from Aztec mythology.
Retour en Afrique
"Retour en Afrique" ( 190h-180cm wide) 2018, made in Laongo, Burkina Faso, on granite. Evocation of a fragmentary portrait half-mask half-woman, composed of bronze inlays in the eyes. To translate the deep connection to the continent, but also the question of roots, for people born of the exodus, the slave trade through the Caribbean or the Americas.
Crocodile Woman
"Crocodile Woman", (limestone, 240h-80-80) 2021, commune of Vix, Vendée ( France), sculpture for an art trail on the theme of vines and marshes. Metamorphosis between man and animal. A mythical world, but also paleontological research: less than 145 million years ago, at the same latitude, there was a completely different ecosystem, with 7 or 8 different varieties of crocodile. Climate variations called into question.
Sinuous hatching
"Sinuous hatching" (180h-180l-170p) 2021-2022. Ruschita marble, Masiuca, Romania. International marble sculpture symposium. A free, organic abstract model for the communion of peoples and peace. A kaleidoscope of form combinations, depending on the point of view.
Lambi Evolution
"Lambi Evolution" (Tuff bien ferme de Sainte-Anne, 250h-180l-150p cm, 2022), Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe's first stone sculpture symposium in the Caribbean. La Conque de Lambi, an aesthetic link between the different peoples and cultures of the Caribbean. The monumental sculpture is adorned with petrographs inspired by models from French Guiana, the Lesser and Greater Antilles, the Breton Neolithic, West Africa (scarifications, engravings on Ethiopian and Malian phallic steles) and Asian floral motifs (India).
The multiple past of the All-World thus engraved on the lambi conch shell becomes common: "to unite memories, to liberate them through each other, is to open the way to World Relation. (E. Glissant, Tous les jours de mai, 2008).
Sculpture symposium residency in Zimbabwe 2024,
with the participation of Rickson Zavare, Morgan Tago Tazvitya, Loraine Mamvura, Absheba Chidhawu, David Chinyama, Laïla Westergaard, Thomas Petit, et Erik Schwarzbart et Wiston Nyekete
Following the residency as well as the visit to different places of production and galleries, organization of the exhibition of our productions at the national gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare.
Production of two sculptures: “Free movement” in Green Opal Stone and “Authentic whitness” in Serpentine Spring Stone
Thomas Petit sculptor
