{"id":85,"date":"2024-04-26T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/04\/26\/elsa-guillaume-travel-sketchbooks\/"},"modified":"2024-04-26T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:27:04","slug":"elsa-guillaume-travel-sketchbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/04\/26\/elsa-guillaume-travel-sketchbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Informed by Research Aboard Ships, Elsa Guillaume Translates the Wonder of Marine Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cArctic Sea Travel Diary.\u201d All images \u00a9 Elsa Guillaume, shared with permission<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Whether capturing the sights of a dive in the remote Mexican village of Xcalak or the internal mechanisms of a sailing ship, Elsa Guillaume<\/a>\u2019s stylized sketchbooks record her adventures. Glimpses of masts, a kitchen quaking from shaky seas, and a hand gutting a fish create a rich tapestry of life on the move. \u201cDaily drawings (are) a ritual while traveling,\u201d she tells Colossal. \u201cIt is a way to practice the gaze, to be attentive to any type of surroundings. I believe it is important to train both eyes and hands simultaneously, and regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brussels-based artist\u2019s frequent travels provide encounters and research opportunities that fuel both her work and devotion to the beauty and wonder of the sea. In fall, she explored the arctic aboard the Polar POD<\/a>, and she\u2019s currently sailing on a 195-meter container ship called the MARIUS for a residency with Villa Albertine<\/a>. The vessel launched this month from Noum\u00e9a in the South Pacific and will travel the Australian east coast, New Zealand, and the Panama Canal before docking in Savannah, Georgia, in May.<\/p>\n

During the six-week journey, Guillaume plans to continue her daily drawings and create a vast repository of ocean life. \u201cIt gives space and time to discover and observe an all-new environment to me, the merchant marine,\u201d she says. \u201cHow human beings either explore, travel, or exploit the ocean has always been a very strong source of inspiration to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When the artist returns to her studio, encounters with new-to-her creatures and the discoveries of her travels often slip into her three-dimensional works, sometimes unintentionally. The process \u201cis very probably an unconscious continuity of what I have noticed, of what I have felt, though I don\u2019t necessarily make an obvious connection between these two practices. I like to think of my sculptures, installations, exhibitions (as) projects from scratch, nourished by many other things,\u201d she shares.<\/p>\n

Often in subdued color palettes or monochrome ceramic, her sculptures tend to display hybrid characteristics, like the human limbs and animal heads of \u201cTriton IX.\u201d Others disassemble ocean life, revealing the insides and anatomy of flayed fish.<\/p>\n

While on the MARIUS, Guillaume will create larger collaged ink drawings that will be shown along with a new sculpture in October at Galerie La Patinoire Royale<\/a> in Brussels. That solo show will \u201ccreate a new narration, around human\u2019s shells, like a lost civilization of the seas. This time at sea, connecting the French island of New-Caledonia to Savannah in the U.S. will infuse in many ways this exhibition project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guillaume has limited internet access during the residency, but follow her on Instagram<\/a> for occasional updates about her journey.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTriton IX\u201d (2022), ceramic, 39 2\/5 \u00d7 16 1\/2 \u00d7 23 3\/5 inches<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTritons\u201d (2020). Photo by Tadzio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThinking About the Immortality of the Crab\u201d (2022). Photo by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Michel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article Informed by Research Aboard Ships, Elsa Guillaume Translates the Wonder of Marine Adventures<\/a> appeared first on Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cArctic Sea Travel Diary.\u201d All images \u00a9 Elsa Guillaume, shared with permission Whether capturing the sights of a dive in the remote Mexican village of Xcalak or the internal mechanisms of a sailing ship, Elsa Guillaume\u2019s stylized sketchbooks record her adventures. Glimpses of masts, a kitchen quaking from shaky seas, and a hand gutting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,210,211,209,212,213,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}