Un Aviateur de Quinze Ans No.1
2022, collage on paper, 34 x 26”, FRAMED

This piece is the first in a series inspired by Un Aviateur de Quinze Ans—a 1927 French comic book written by Arnould Galopin, who drew on the aviation fever of the time and the global fame of Charles Lindbergh. I stumbled on a box of these at an attic sale in Southern France last fall and couldn’t stop laughing at the mix of drama, invention, and wildly outdated ideas of adventure.

The collage reimagines those serialized exploits, slicing comic panels into a dense, vertical forest of vintage book pages. The sky behind is bright and surreal, a dream of open air beneath improbable action. Canoes dangle in midair. Jungle escapes collide with airborne mishaps. Every figure seems suspended mid-chaos—and yet, completely at home there.

Un Aviateur de Quinze Ans No.1 is part tribute, part satire, and part time-traveling fever dream. It’s a collage born from curiosity, amusement, and the pure joy of slicing up the past to build something entirely new.

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