STREET ART

Mademoiselle Maurice.

Mademoiselle Maurice is a French artist born and raised in the high mountains of Savoy. She studied Architecture in Lyon, worked in Geneva and Marseille. She worked as an architect but she gave it up because it was not very enjoyable. She lived one year in Japan and suffered the tragic events of 11th March 2011: earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear power plant explosion of Fukushima. So she decided to star composing its artistic and urban works in connection with these facts.

This artist works in a little studio in Paris. She gave birth to her works via paper, paint, metal or other mixed media and recycled stuffs. She started by photographing people. Her first street art was made with ribbons. Some years ago she did street art with wool, but nowadays she does it with origami. She works mainly with five different shapes: bird, wind, crane, boat and flower. She usually needs around 800 or 1500 pieces of paper for one work, depending on the size of the surface.

She wants her art to be ephemeral, because it represents human life that also it is, and that is because she does not give so much value to her work. She wants to transmit a message of happiness, hope and peace.

Some works by this artist that I like are:

In this picture there is a work of Mademoiselle Maurice with the word PASSION on a wall. I like it because it is very colourful and I like the word. Mademoiselle Maurice has used different colour papers and with these she made different origami figures (bird, flower and crane) and sticked them on the wall. This work was made on a wall next to the Coffee Araku, in Paris in 2017.