Peripheral ARTeries
Sam Dougados
Prendre le temps
Before starting to focus on your artworks, I would like that you tell us something about your creative process and especially about your set up for making your works. By the way, do you visualize your works before creating? Do you know what it will look like before you begin?
Speaking about the beach art, the sand drawing are offen improvised. I come on the beach and let the inspiration coming. Sometimes I had specific ideas but because of the sand banks, puddles, I couldn't draw them as I wanted so I did something else and also using them on my draw as the photos Empreintes Digitales or Playground for example. When I start, I don’t visualize the entire work even if i did a sketch on the sand before. I'm looking for a global harmony so I can add lines or draw until I'm satisfied.
Code Barre
sent one third to half of my artworks on the beach.For the environmental art and installations, it's thought before except for some cellular concrete sculptures. Now let's concentrate on your works: I would start form "Code Barre", that I find very stimulating for the synergy between Nature and the "Man Made World"... what was your initial inspiration?
When it's a sentence, it's more easy more evident and they are generally thought before coming on the beach. I also have a sketch book where I write my ideas which may repre-
My beach art work could be compared to street art by using a common place, easy access and 38