"My work is about accommodation, between points of view and layers of consciousness, between inside and outside, between inner and outer, and between being and not being. Iron wire and lead sketchily outline, shape and content of a portrait or figure. Through focused light, shadows and moving silhouettes become visible as portraits of the soul" | Michele Baudet

 

Michèle Baudet's work is like "Balancing between points of view". Wire and line in iron wire and lead sketch the shape and content of a face. The light creates moving portrait contours, reflections, silhouettes and shadows. A longer look reveals a personality and character behind the highly abstracted shapes of a head, shifting attention from the outline of the face to the inner processes and emotions of the person portrayed.
Michèle Baudet's wire portraits can be characterised as psychographies: portraits of moods, insights, feelings. A rudimentary head of pieces of wire and lead becomes an old acquaintance, a lost love or a kindred spirit. They are signs of compassion in which the sensitive observer can find his own loneliness and recognise a plodding fellow soul | Nop Maas

 

 

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