"À tire d'ailes" Collection

Inspiration and description of the exhibition project
" In a flurry of wings "

Following the ban to pass feathers at the U.S. Customs for the Crafts exhibit at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, I feel an irresistible urge to add feathers to my hats.

I then decided to override this regulation. So, my answer to this sudden impulse, born out of a simple prohibition, is now in creating a feather effect by cutting thin strips into the felt.

The resemblance between the headgear and the bird now becomes obvious and is transformed into the perfect inspiration that propels me towards another imaginary world of creation.

I search in the " Petit Larousse " and in the " Identification Guide to Birds of North America." There is no end to my creating links between the millinery's terms and the ornithology lexicon. I go from the brim of a hat to the trailing edge flight.

Currently, the milliner that I am is migrating to a climate conducive to creating works of expression.

The artist is growing wings and from a nest of hats, the bird with invented feathers is born this wind of inspiration is ideal in provoking a swift lift off: À tire d'ailes, (In a flurry of wings) a collection fashioned in a flight of fancy.

From a hat's nest
the bird with invented feathers is born
From the invented feathers, cut into the fur felt
the collection "In a flurry of wings " is born
The hat takes flight
The bird rests on my head.