"I recently started a series of drawings with small objects that I called "detached parts" because they are images that I had already used several times in my paintings or my drawings but which, for the first time, become the main subject of the work. It could well be a screw, a spring, a weapon or a capsule... important in the history of art and that I am attached to the classical side of painting. Others fascinate me simply because even drawing the same object again and again in different facets, my vision, and therefore the result, will each time be very variable and will never cease to amaze me. I even believe that if I had a more conceptual mind, I would have stopped at a single object by always redoing the same drawing or the same painting just to observe the variations on each work...”

Philippe Huart