Collaboration with a master glassmaker, Allain Guillot, the first "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" in glassmaking, has made it possible to produce a vase in the shape of a womb. Named Freud's Vase, it gives a plastic equivalent to the theory of the founder of psychoanalysis, who compared the vagina "to all sorts of vases" (La vie sexuelle, 1931) that await man's seed to be complete. The highly olfactory oriental lilies known as Eve's Tears, whose pistils stain those who touch them, have also helped to make visible archetypal representations of women derived from masculine theories.
A collaboration with ceramist Patrick Rollet, co-founder of the Musée Bernard Palissy in Saint Avit (47150 Lacapelle-Biron), resulted in the production of a uterus-shaped vase covered with snakes, reptiles and batrachians. According to Aristotle, these beings correspond to a form of life that results from an aberration of nature, placed at the bottom of the Scala Naturae, they are also associated with the image of woman. The reference to Bernard Palissy's ceramics and the shape of the uterus combine here in the idea of human incompleteness, but also of the imperfection of earth. The materials used (earth, pond) and the title Le Vase de Méduse (Medusa's Vase) allude to the terror of the feminine conveyed by Medusa and Freudian theories.
Le Vase Mamelles, whose overall shape is inherited from the tripod pots of ancient China, evokes the shape of a cow's breasts and udders. The result of a synthesis between feminine identity, the beast of burden and the work of the earth, the ceramics place animals and women on the same level in the archaic conception of the Scala Naturae established by Aristotle in antiquity. The subtitle (Suzanne) refers to the life of Suzanne Tessier, who at the age of twelve in Issigeac, Dordogne, in the early 20th century, pulled the plough in place of the cow that had just died. Under the authority of her parents' potics, she was thus reduced all her life to the role of a docile, hard-working beast.
The "vases" are containers for thoughts, quotations or stories that reflect the archetypes of patriarchal society with regard to the female body.