Following the series of  12 drawings realised before the composition of Mutatis mutandis for 12 amplified strings, I revisited the idea of a set of wave-particles. The multitude of interconnected dots and the small triangular clusters they form when grouped together echo the three-pitch pendulums, recurring figures in my musical works, and the modularity of my sound writing.

The configuration of dots seems mobile and elastic and its declensions are potentially limitless. The background evokes Riemannian geometry. The rigidity of the framework is disrupted by forces of mutation. The vertical and horizontal lines of the grid become deformed and turn into curves.

Drawing 2 was used to illustrate the cover of the psychoanalytic journal SUPERFLUX N°8/9 (École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse, Paris-FR) published in December 2015.

Drawing in black ballpoint pen; 70 g US Letter size notepad (21,6x27,9 cm), ruled with margin; background: photograph of a New York glass skyscraper (photograph: Clara Maïda); digital editing with Photoshop (superimposition of the drawing and the photograph, colouring and filters, distortion).

Clara Maïda, November 2012