With “Affleurants”, the clay is pressed directly onto a carefully selected bedrock of the country side near by my atelier. I dreamt, with this concept, to put the clay back where it came from before fragmentation. In the kiln, those prints recovered with glazes are fired, thus travelling through geological history. Opening the kiln, it is as if time had been speeded up, everything is there but under a different form, shaped by our humanity.

Anne Verdier