MOSAIC WORK STUDIO MOTION OPTIC CHEETAH

• Each micro-tessera makes up this major work. The detail becomes strength, the tiny draws intensity, like a meditation on contrast.

• Dimensions of the work:
Highest height: 56 cm
Longest length: 190 cm
Thickness: 1.2 cm
Total weight: approximately 10 kg
Total number of tesserae: several thousand, all assembled, one by one, by hand, in the workshop, to the nearest millimeter

• Dimensions of each tesserae: 10 mm x 10 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight of each tesserae: less than 2 g

• Materials used: artisanal glass paste and natural minerals
Finish: all the tesserae that form the outline of the cheetah have been cut by hand one by one and polished with a wheel but remain raw despite everything

• Support material: transparent plexiglass (or PMMA – polymethyl methacrylate) which is both rigid and slightly flexible

• Properties: water-repellent, smooth surface and easy to maintain

Each tessera measures barely a centimeter, yet a whole world comes to life before the eye. Placed one by one, these glass particles play like pixels, fragmenting the light, creating vibrations, bursts, and reflections. On this microscopic scale, the work presents itself as a meticulous score, where each note is placed with intention.

But as soon as you step back a few steps, everything changes. Your gaze stops counting points to allow the form, the flow, the tension of the movement to emerge. The silhouette of the cheetah then leaps like a flame into space, drawn by speed, shot through with power. The brain, flattered by the optical illusion, reads a fluid energy, a momentum that goes beyond the framework of art to touch instinct.

It is in this shift, between pinpoint precision and dazzling presence, that the magic of OPTIC CHEETAH resides. A work that pays homage to inner speed, to this vital pulse that we feel rising, in the practice of yoga as in the impetus of creation. The tiny becomes major, and each detail contributes to a vibrant, free, immediate whole.