One drawing per day, made with a black pen in a small 14 × 9 cm notebook, during my time working at the Palace of Versailles.
As an agent d’accueil et contrôleuse, my job was to spend entire days outdoors in the gardens, guiding and informing visitors. The Palace of Versailles is both a historic landmark and a magnificent setting, yet it stands in stark contrast to the mass tourism that sweeps through it daily—an experience that can often feel exhausting and overwhelming.
Drawing became my way of holding on to the beauty and grandeur of the place: a way to rediscover it, to look at it differently, more intimately—through the slow, attentive act of drawing.
Sketchbook I, 2019.
Black pen on paper,
Sketchbook, 14 x 9 cm. each,
Versailles, France.