‘The Rue Du Commerce’ Moleskine connects with a pictorial cycle in progress whose source is the ‘Pagne’ cloths in the actual Rue Du Commerce in Plateau, Abidjan. Just as I bodily strolled through those small boutiques, browsing, looking through windows, getting close up for details which caught my eye, so I went for a walk with the lines and the cut-outs in each page of the book.
So it can be imagined as a kind of paper/store/walk.
(born in Australia) Lives in Italy and West Africa.
The voyage is the starting point for most of Ryan’s artwork. A multi-disciplinary artist, traveller and art activist, Ryan sources aspects of the immediate contexts when reaching any new place, and transforms them into a series of visual narratives concerned with land, memory and identity.
