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Illustrations by Sophie Daxhelet, workshop at Ihecs for Master 1 students in the Macs section, cardboard stencils By ERG students in typography
Clients - Mélanie Godin, L’Arbre de Diane
Between 2017 and 2019, we worked with Mélanie Godin on an exciting guerilla cultural project which involved creating 4 playful maps for a ‘poetry hunt’ around Brussels. These cartographic artworks revealed the locations of short ephemeral poems that were cleverly scattered across several communes. Project leader Godin, who is the publisher at L’Arbre de Diane, sought out Piknik to take care of the graphic design while Sophie Daxhelet made custom whimsical illustrations.
The poems, which were sourced from writing workshops and written by both established poets and novices, were printed on cardboard stencils and applied to discrete corners in public spaces. Using custom typefaces (created by ERG typography students) and ink that only becomes visible in contact with water, the poems appear under a drench of rain as if by magic, on a sidewalk, step, or wall. Then they disappear again, waiting for their next flush.
The ethos of the project was to capture the transience of poetry and the question of memory, uniting various Brussels localities around a common project. The project celebrates poetry’s ephemerality, which acts as a mirror for our own fragility.
Peauésie was awarded the Bruocsella Prize in 2017.
Between 2017 and 2019, we worked with Mélanie Godin on an exciting guerilla cultural project which involved creating 4 maps for a ‘poetry hunt’ around Brussels. Project leader Godin, who is the publisher at L’Arbre de Diane, sought out Piknik to take care of the graphic design while Sophie Daxhelet made custom whimsical illustrations.
The poems, which were written by both established poets and novices, were printed on cardboard stencils and applied to discrete corners in public spaces. Using custom typefaces and ink that only becomes visible in contact with water, the poems appear under the rain as if by magic. Then they disappear again, waiting for their next flush.
