Last missive sent to:
French Ministry culture &
Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Olga Duda Ostrowska
33 Rue Poussin
75016 Paris, France
Ladies and gentlemen,
The life of the nomad is made of fortuitous encounters, which upset the path.
It was the case for me, with the Civilization and the Maya Art, from the very beginning.
After twenty years of a Parisian life it was a kind of homecoming.
First settle in a fishing village inaccessible to cars and civilization, and driven by my desire to extend my stay and my need to come up to support myself, I considered a solution through the making of necklaces of shells, which are particularly remarkable in this coastal region. It was then that the harmony of the forms, their delicate and mysterious beauty imposed on my urban gaze.
My sense of taste for sculpture helping, I began by filing, sanding, polishing the most beautiful pieces I found, which gradually became adornments whose form was enhanced with the help from a jeweler.
The sale of these jewels ensured my stay, and allowed me the opportunity to open myself up to the subtle language of the sea. I devoted myself to this experiment from 1974 to 1998. The stripping away of the first step gave me the way to a sophistication, costumes, hats, semi-precious pearls united with coral (vague reference to the Parisian life of a far distant past), through the imagery of different cultures (Italy, Spain, Africa, West Indies, Asia.)
The creation of those fragile and unique ocean sculptures, each composed of fragments of shells, marine fossils, corals and mother-of-pearl, is the result of hours of walking (20 to 30 Kms per day), tides, seasons, interspersed with trips to different sources, sorting, polishing, assembling and the result of many years of patient attention.
Thinking of setting up a show, in testimony of an aquatic and tropical fauna unknown in Europe and today threatened by pollution. (Regardless, I would like to get your attention to the fact that in the case of the Yucatan Peninsula, the endless beaches of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea are overflowing with oil - sea fishing has fallen at a quarter of its production in twenty years, turtles, coral, crustaceans and a wide variety of shells are endangered).
The lack of financial means and knowledge of the entertainment industry have so far prevented the project from being implemented. Today, in order to follow up the dialectical process, it seems necessary to me to be first of all to synthesize and go ahead with the third stay, from which I expect a new inspiration and an improvement in the art of water.
In order to avoid selling my production as and when it was created to collectors to ensure my survival, to limit the breakage by the use of appropriate tools, to rent an adequate workshop for the storage, a financial support is necessary today. In addition, it would seem wise to expose in the long term in an aquatic environment, protected by the cases like crystal globes (because of their fragility).
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