AN ARTISTIC RELAY | MOMENTS IN TIME
"O temps! Suspends ton vol, et vous heures propices suspendez votre cours: laissez- nous savourer les rapides delices des plus beaux de nos jours!"
- Alphonse de Lamartine
A mutual friend asked Michele and Bibi to create a work of art together.
This led to a turning point in their artistic careers.
Michele and Bibi started exploring new emotions, new sensations and consequently new materials. But the request for shared work had a major impact, more powerful than anything they had expected.
It led to portraits making way for androgynous figures, figurative expression evolving to abstraction; relinquishing preconceived models.
The starting point became a thought, an idea, a concept: Capturing Time.
Working on something that had been thought-through together was an intense revelation. It became a totally symbiotic experience, based upon unconditional trust.
They were operating on the same creative frequency. Where one finished, the other continued, creating a perfect flow, giving an extra dimension to their combined effort.
It was as though the work was fuelled by a duplication of force, by an unspoken chemistry containing an unknown vigour and an unknown strength.
There can be a rare moment in life, when a mother and a daughter share the same strength, awareness and wisdom, and where their life curves meet.
This new project came at such a moment! It was a serendipitous moment when they could commit to this artistic relay and hand over to each other the baton combining their own profound experiences.
A moment of perfect synchronicity.
Over time Michele has developed a fascination with time, sensitized by the coming and going of time, the rhythm of nature and time being ephemeral.
Michele lives by what the Greeks called a Kairos clock: qualitative time.
Bibi on the other hand; is inquisitive, constantly pressed for time, no minutes lost. She has a visceral hunger to use every second, whether creating or recording processes or developing ideas.
Bibi lives on a Chronos clock: quantitative time.
Their frequencies merged, Kairos entered Chronos and created a new sense of time, timeless time.
Although Michele and Bibi have very different perceptions of time, they have managed, in total harmony, to freeze time in general and their time in particular, in their united art works.