"Griffes (.txt)" is a series of open school notebooks, displayed under glass, filled with India ink strikethroughs. Inspired by John Baldessari's performance "I will not make anymore boring art," this work explores a writing gesture that is both compulsive and silent. Each page conceals writing that never truly existed, a narrative mentally constructed but never put down on paper. These pages bear witness to an intimate writing process where the act of tracing confronts that of erasure. This surface reflects the inner struggle between the desire for expression and the limits of language.

The title "Griffes" (Claws/Scribbles) plays on polysemy: a scratch, wild writing, but also a claw as a mark or imprint. The suffix ".txt" introduces the notion of a digital file, suggesting a text that has become illegible, encrypted, or simply internal.

Between archive, diary, and palimpsest, "Griffes (.txt)" explores the emotional charge of the scriptural gesture, in its compulsive, resistant, and poetic dimensions. This introspective and almost punitive performance transforms the act of striking out into a ritual, where the visible is the memory of secret thoughts, kept out of reach. The project interrogates memory, trace, and absence, making the act of erasing an act of creation in its own right.

 Scratches (Notebook 1)