T he process is based on the use of four fundamental building blocks – Matrix, Revealed, Impression and Imprint (MR2I) – which together form a genuine plastic genetic code.

A matrix is created using oil pastel on paper, through the superimposition and shaping of material and color, with the pastel stick and directly by hand.
This matrix is embossed from the reverse by being placed on another sheet of paper. The embossing involves a slow, precise, repetitive, and incisive graphic process, carried out using a glass pen.
The embossing simultaneously produces:

a revealed: the transformed matrix, having lost part of its material.

an impression: that is, the transfer of this material onto the other paper through the pressure of embossing.

From this revealed (or sometimes from the impression), an imprint on paper can be made.

The embossing, which remains on the back of the matrix once it has become the revealed, is generally not shown. However, the embossing of Mode of Existence 2 – Hybrid is reproduced on this website as the background of all pages.

This process thus gives rise to two or three distinct monotypes (the revealed, the impression, and the imprint), all derived from an initial matrix that disappears in the process, becoming the revealed itself.

A matrix can also be used as it is, in various arrangements, thus completing the four-part plastic genetic code. It then becomes a latent matrix, that is, a work that has retained its creative potential.


This original technique, developed by the artist, weaves together chance, binary and ternary structures, matter, color, drawing, and plastic code. It becomes the foundation of her various works, giving shape to contemporary Nature — a global ecosystem of generalized interdependencies, of Natures-Cultures, multiple assemblages, and local ecosystems.