This globe, although it surprises people a lot, is still not strange enough for my taste.

I made it at a time when I was interested in slightly « twisted » metallic structures (Euler’s surfaces and so on).

After seeing one of Jean-Pierre Petit’s cartoons, I imagined a buoy-like shape on which to transfer the map of the world, , just to see what it could look like on such a structure (in actual fact and not just in a drawing).

I made many attempts to produce that type of surface, that are still lying about at the back of my studio, without being able to put a single map on any of them.
 

My impression is that plane images of such a surface produce a flattering effect that no realization in volume can equal. I am also certain that sculptures of that type of surface are « cheats » ( In fact I’ve always cheated in order to be able to complete this type of volumetric structure).

To get back to that globe, it refers to a game that I often play, in which I mix easily recognizable images with their reflection in a mirror. (Draw an arrow pointing to the left and write « left » in mirrored writing and you’ll see… reason boggles).

One of my favourite mental games consists in imagining that optical instruments, with all the optical lenses and mirrors that go into their making, could have misled us since their invention, giving us a false picture of the earth. However, anyone who wants to set my vision the « right way up » will have to give me a journey in a space ship so that I can find out for myself.

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