— Absence [LAE II]

Second piece from the “LAE” collection: unique piece combining a drawing and an extract from the book Les adorables étrangetés .

Text of the play:

Your absence is not spoken. It is kept in the mouth. At most, it is evoked in a sigh—and if all that doesn't say much, everything about me is told there: as I chew our ashes. As I nibble at our silences. As I starve myself: of your skin, of your eyes: even the nothing of you. Then how wonderfully I collapse into spaces indifferent to my pain where, for me, everything concerns you. Where are you? Nothing is right. A woman outside my language reigns over me.

Original charcoal drawing of “The Absence”

• Charcoal on fringed Velin paper, BFK Rives, museum quality [50 x 65 cm]
• Comes with a certificate of authenticity and a signed copy of the book The Adorable Strangeness
• Signed by Lucas Clavel
• Completed in June 2024