Saturnalia

A selection of drawings by Erik Volet from 1999-2007. Saturnalia is a selection of ink drawings from 1999-2007.

“The drawings collected in the present volume represent a fragment of a much larger work; years of incantations and descents into the emptiness of self are here displayed in a fractured and fragile way, for that which they represent cannot be given in a singular stroke. But they serve to provide us with a glimpse of another grand attempt, another striving towards the centre, another drawing aside of the veil. In these works can be seen the manipulations of a magus born in an age when it has been decreed that such a creature shall not be. Here can be seen a desire to create and recreate another system of nature, where the dead light of fluorescent bulbs can no longer blind us in our dreaming. Here we see the hand moving in the act of tracing the transformations of point and line across the encompassing whiteness of new time, where the cartoon representation of a human face stands as the irreducible representation of that real with which all our sciences struggle. It is only in the image of the face of the other that we find the reflection of the order of the self sought by all our symbolic orders.”

Ami Joseph Brosseau, August 2007

  • 6” x 9”
  • 80 B&W Pages
  • Edition of 300
  • Published 2007
  • ISBN 978-0-9784859-0-0
  • IN STOCK - $12.00




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