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islamic tiling: geometry challenge #190 (1996)
digital image,

line statement

my interest is the line, what creates it, how to render it, how to use it; lines by myself, by others; lines in nature, in physics, in mathematics. the line fascinates me because it is the foundation of drawing, and that of visual art; because the line is the thread in the weave of space; because the line is a metaphor for motion, and hence for time, and for music. my work is a reflexion, a meditation on the line. it has been said that drawing is gesture: it can be that, but it can also be much more than that. drawing is also an idea of a motion, a prelude to gestures, a gift of time. drawing is just a thought.

imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything, the secret and intimate connection between things, correspondances and analogies.
(charles baudelaire)

creative commons license jean-pierre hébert contact. (20 Apr 2008)