Tristan Mottier - Ancré

Description of the work:

In the foreground, a thick, frozen mooring rope, salt and time marked, rests on a weathered wooden deck.
Each fiber tells of effort, waiting, resistance.
The wood is split, patinated, rough, as if polished by years of storms and silences.

Opposite it, an old fishing boat, firmly moored, seems frozen between two worlds.
Its hull bears the marks of oxidized iron, impacts, successive repairs.
A warm light escapes from the cabin, a fragile contrast with the mineral chill of the mountains that enclose the scene.

The sky is heavy, almost still.
The water is dark, calm, contained.
Nothing moves, and yet everything is charged with inner tension.

This image does not speak of departure, but of choice.
That of staying.
Of being anchored.

Characteristics:

• Print: only 30 copies - 3/30
• Dimensions: 60 × 40 cm
• Work number: 72 53 68
• Photograph numbered and hand-signed by the artist
• Artist: Tristan Mottier
• Careful delivery, artwork protected with attention

Word from the artist:

I have always been fascinated by these boats.
By the rough ropes, the moorings, the patinated, rusted iron.
I love wood marked by time, materials that have lived.

There is in these places a very particular smell.
A blend of humidity, warm wood, metal, a bit like the smell of an old car, seats, plastic, something familiar and reassuring.

These are rough, sometimes hostile places.
But there is always human presence.
Hands that have worked, repaired, waited.

These boats are not beautiful in the modern sense.
They are real.
And that is exactly what I seek.

Tristan Mottier