Maissa Toulet

Posted on | October 30, 2008 | 4 Comments

It’s absolutely freezing in our house! Greg refuses to turn up the heat to 65 degrees. The only warm spot in the house is my office and bedroom. I might be glued to computer for the next 5 months. Good news for all of you because I’m on the internet searching for cool stuff! If I wasn’t stuck to my computer today I would have never found these gorgeous art boxes by french artist Maissa Toulet (via designersblock.blogspot.com). Each box is a collage of what looks like a thought or memory. I really can’t tell you anything more about them because I don’t speak French. Check them out: maissatoulet.fr.

Category: artist

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4 Responses to “Maissa Toulet”

katek
October 30th, 2008 @ 9:24 pm

I do! The titles of the ones you posted, in order, are (very roughly):
"De l'utilité des nuages"–>"Of the utility of clouds"
"Les Végétaux"–>"The plants"
"La vue"–>"Sight"
"Hygiène bucco-dentaire de l'adulte"–>"Adult dental hygiene"
"Piège à rongeurs"–>"Rodent trap"

Instead of a bio she posted a wonderful alphabet, with each letter giving rise to a sentence or two about inspiration or her motivation or methods. (For A, for instance, she talk about spiders (araignée) and how she sees insects as jewels and that spiders hold the dual power of terror and fascination and are thus sacred animals. More literally, under H (histoires, or stories), she says:
"To simplify, sometimes I say my boxes tell stories. In fact, that is false. I have trouble remembering stories, and I have none to tell. In the telling, I most like the details, the little pieces."
Anonymous
October 31st, 2008 @ 8:13 am

this post really made my day..so are the rest of them, actually:-)
thanks!
katy elliott
October 31st, 2008 @ 8:53 am

Thanks Kate! I love the boxes even more now that I know what they say.
maïssa
November 4th, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

I've just discovered this article on google.Thank you so much!!! I' m so happy to see that over the ocean some people I don't know are trying to understand what i did. I sometimes feel so useless doing my "stuff" . For sure this post "made my day" as well!
As you probably know, in France we're all crossing our fingers for Obama!!!
Hope we'll drink virtual champagne together!