Miriello Grafico

I just got back from southern France and Italy. An amazing trip full or connections with creative people and amazing beauty.  I wandered into a small  store in Avignon called VOX POPULI on the suggestion of our Provence experts, friends Simon and Debra Ritchkin. Talking with the owner/artist Pascale Palun- even now two weeks later- and I’m still captive in her vision of beauty and how she works.

Pascal and her husband Bruno have been collecting items from Frances rich tradition of brocantes (flee markets really) and have translated their collection of discards into a world of fantasy and old/new beauty and transporting visual dreamlike richness. Pascale invited us to tour their atelier on the second floor of a funky aged flat in Avignon center. She explained that she sells custom pieces to Anthropologie for use in their retail store displays. The work they do is really more of a world, an environment, a state of mind,  than a work. The entire atelier was full with assemblages and wire-drawn scenes, hanging lamps, re-purposed film negatives, and on and on.

I left their “world” mesmerized by the vision she has and her amazing way of seeing the potential in items that were destine to be discards. I’ll be back to Avignon, just to see VOX POPULI again, and maybe have a few more bottles of Cote du Rhone.