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11th June
Eogan is an artist. He is also a person with special needs. Once a week, we collaborated on a painting series. The result is a diptych about his mother’s souvenirs. And a gunman. Three paintings but this is not a triptych. I had asked Eogan to bring pictures to launch the project. He came the first time with old photos of his mother on the platform of a train station and… James Bond.
I wondered how to work with him. My scruples concerned the respect for his work, how to exchange ideas without me imposing my vision on him.
I was concerned that he would agree with how all the work was done and be involved in every stage of the process. He himself brought e response to the issue in the very first session. I had prepared a canvas the day before. This canvas was not foreseen for the collaboration. This was for me only. I left the space to get coffee and when I returned with drinks Eogan had partially covered this canvas with white paint and began a drawing on it. This was good. I realised that I didn’t need to worry so much about this issue of respect. We simply had to do what seemed to us to suit to complete the painting. I have therefore also covered certain parts of his work. I would say that we practised a form of palimpsest to the improbable result.
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