Célia Housset

TROPIQUES ET METEORITES

A rain distiller hidden in a wet and magical forest...

🎉Just after Halloween, on the 1st of November we launched the opening of our dear comic book Nimbostratus.🎉 I wanted to thank all of you for coming to the exhibition to take your counterparts, talk to us, grab a book and drink a beer. 🍻 It was such a good time and I was tired but really really happy to see everyone having a good time. The hours passed soooo quickly and I’m a bit sad that I didn’t have the time to discuss with each of you. This project have been the biggest thing I ever did and even if it have been angsty and tiring I learned so much ! Now we still have to deliver all the counterparts of the people that could not come, but it’s almost finished and I’m very impatient that each person finally get their parcel. 💪💪💕 

Again, thank you, thank you a MILLION TIMES for helping us in this project, buying it, reading it, liking it ! 

During the cold days of fall, strange frogs puts on their best clothes and start preparing Halloween. Perfect for the autumn days, this letter has been inspired by folk papercuts and imagery. The idea is simple, it's not only a letter-paper, but also an envelope! Just cut the square of the A4 paper with scissors, write to your dear ones and fold the letter as explained on the scrap you just cut. The original illustration of this letter has been made with gouache and watercolor. The letter is: -21 x 29,7 cm (A4) -120 gr mat quality paper If you’re interested by this stationery you can buy it here ;) :

HORRAY !

The pins from Ulule crowdfunding NIMBOSTRATUS arrived a few days ago and I’m so happy to show you the pictures I took of them.

Don’t you think these photos feels like falling leaves and days growing colder? :) I love that our collective comic book about rain will be send to our participant on the starting of fall <3  Those pins are not open for sales YET, but don't worry! As soon as every of our crowdfunding participant get their counterparts, we will start selling them ;)

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I’ve been very silent on this platform lately because I don’t manage to take the time to post everything everywhere! So if you’re wondering “what is Nimbostratus”? Just go on our Ulule page to know a bit more about it! :)

Lunar Herbiary

This linoprint bell serie is inspired by all the 90s fairy books I read while growing up.

Brian Froud being one of the main and first that brought this strange feeling of the magic in the wood.  Of course now, with my adult eyes, these book seems kinda kitsch by I cannot forget this dreamy warmth that brought me the reading of these volumes.

I particularly remember that in many of these works the text talked about bellflowers being a passage to the world of magic and death. So were dawn and sunrise of course, but bellflowers had a morbid reputation that said “If you hear the ringing of the bellflower you hear the ringing of your own death” and I liked it very much. Of course the world of the dead means many things, it can also be associated to the world of dreams.  To me, these worlds are linked to inspiration and creation, so this linoprint is a way to access to them.

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This work is made by linocut and is printed with etching ink on quality Nepalese paper.  The paper is hand cut and is made with long and resistant Lokta fibers that gives a smooth, felt and textile like feeling. The lino is printed with strong and shiny typographic ink. Each linocut is homemade and handcut so there might be light differences in the inking and the sizing that gives the print it’s uniqueness !

For more infos don’t hesitate to check my etsy ! 😏😏

💀"The warrior"💀 A forearm tightly hold in it’s hand a red bleeding mass.

This textile sculpture was created for the exhibition “octobre rose” some years ago. I did not have the time to take proper pictures of it so here we are years later! 😂👌 This exhibition was made for breast cancer awareness. I decided to create a warrior’s forearm, between skin and armour, victoriously grabbing a piece of flesh symbolising the cancer.

The arm is a cotton fabric printed monotype technique with my favourite color, a mix of blue and black. The bleeding flesh is made of red and orange flet, sewn and then embroidered with different textures and colors of pearls.

This linoprint bell serie is inspired by all the 90s fairy books I read while growing up. Brian Froud being one of the main and first that brought this strange feeling of the magic in the wood. Of course now, with my adult eyes, these book seems kinda kitsch by I cannot forget this dreamy warmth that brought me the reading of these volumes. I particularly remember that in many of these works the text talked about bellflowers being a passage to the world of magic and death. So were dawn and sunrise of course, but bellflowers had a morbid reputation that said "If you hear the ringing of the bellflower you hear the ringing of your own death" and I liked it very much.

“Mandrake twins”

These monstruous siblings have been engraved for the FEFFS (Festival du film Fantastique de Strasbourg) with the “Atelier du bain aux Plantes” and are a part of the linoprint workshop we created during the happening.

This engraving, like many of my other drawings, are divided in two distinctive characters. It’s a topic that often comes up in my work that symbolise the contraction of choices and feelings you get when growing up. Good or bad, anger or hapiness, love or hate... Even gender. I have been teached that those concepts were always contrary when, in fact, you can feel or be them both at the same time.

Twins seems to be a way to express my confusion, I suppose.

Only one of these “Mandrake twins” engravings are left on my shop at my tictail: http://oenothera.tictail.com/  (Only available to Europe for now)

A growing plant extend it’s leaves toward the sky as the roots grow deep inside the earth.

This tree of life is inspired by Alsatian imagery but I decided to let more place to the roots of the plants.

The roots symbolise the underneath of bloom. A slow and invisible growing that accumulate strength for the tree to age and expand. It's my hidden inspiration, a force, a pure feeling that come from the guts, like rage, sadness and hapiness.

The blooming flowers represent different stages of growth each of them being important in the developement of the self.

Three pieces of this “Tree of life” are available in the shop at http://oenothera.tictail.com/ .