A Forest
For the bar of a hotel named Le Sanglier, located in a forested region of the Belgian Ardennes—an area where hunting holds strong cultural significance—I conceived and created this mural as a kind of sample of the surrounding forest floor. Within it, one can discover traces of wild boar footprints, ferns, pinecones, and many mushrooms.
I took impressions of the forest floor and then transferred them into ceramic. I mixed my own glazes, applying them in abstract, painterly layers to evoke a dreamlike, poetic quality in this vertically installed landscape on the hotel walls.
The mural stretches over 9 meters in length, divided into five panels, each 1.4 meters high. The piece has just been installed, although the hotel construction is not yet fully completed.