Louise Laborie draws the lonely, cinematic and in-between parts of America

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Louise Laborie draws the lonely, cinematic and in-between parts of America

Illustrator Louise Laborie documents transitional American landscapes, using charcoal and watercolor to capture the loneliness of teenagers in motels and highway stops.

What: Louise Laborie, a French illustrator, creates cinematic scenes of American 'transit spaces' like motels and skate parks. Her process involves careful preparation, including stretching watercolor paper, to depict figures that occupy the liminal space between childhood and adulthood.

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French illustrator Louise Laborie uses watercolor and charcoal to depict America's motels, highways, skate parks, and other transitional spaces at dusk, populating them with teenagers caught between childhood and adulthood to create quiet, cinematic scenes shaped by loneliness, music, memory, and imagined stories.

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