Work / Facade mapping · Tree performance · 2024–25
Facade mapping · Tree performance · 2024–25
La Isla Festival
Two editions of one festival. In 2024 I drew live on a colonial mansion at Domaine de Labourdonnais, mirrored in its pool. In 2025 the festival brought me back — this time to draw on masks hung in the tree crowns.
Mansion facade, Domaine de Labourdonnais — portraits, plants and the festival's 'La Isla 2068' theme drawn across the building and reflected in the pool.
Tree crown performance — painted masks in the branches, the projector on a neighbouring tree, the artist drawing from up in the crown.
No pre-rendered content. Every image on the facade and in the trees was drawn during the night, answering the music and the crowd.
How it works
Three steps, all live.
Map
The facade or the masks are traced once, so every stroke lands on architecture or on a mask — never on a flat rectangle.
Draw
I draw live on an iPad in Tagtool, layering characters, plants and loops through the night.
Return
The festival invites the show back the next year in a new form — the best review a format can get.
For organisers
- Surface
- A facade 10–30 m wide, or trees where masks can be hung.
- Projector
- Laser projector matched to the distance; for tree crowns a compact projector on a nearby tree.
- Time
- Test session the evening before; show after sunset, all night if you like.
- On site
- Power, a cover against rain, dark surroundings in front of the surface.