Incollect Magazine - Issue 12

80 www.incollect.com On a material level, this tension is manifested in a series of visual contrasts: between light and shadow, balance and stress, a feeling of weightlessness and heaviness, and between permanence and transformation. The artist enters a creative state guided by intuition and faith when working, she explains, speaking about her processes in a language informed in part by books about spiritualism, astronomy, and the origins of the galaxy, especially the work of the Canadian astrophysicist Hubert Reeves. “I am sculpting the landscape of the universe,” Moreau says. “Through my work, I embark on a fascinating journey, one in search of who we are. Melting into the darkness of the universe, I contemplate the breathtaking landscape offered by the Earth, the planets, and the stars. I fill my body with all their energy, hoping that the echo of this vast universe manifests itself in my works. Clockwise from top left: 1. Hoon Moreau hand-sculpting the crack in the bronze Les Enchantées Jumelles table. 2. Top view, showing the exquisite patina of Les Enchantées Jumelles. The crack gleams in textured gilt bronze. 3. Hoon Moreau with OAK Oneofakind Gallery founder and director Antoine Vignault. 4. Moreau’s sketches for Les Enchantées Jumelles, bois, her sold-out edition of the tables in oak, the tops tinted in Chinese ink with a gilded crack.