Solar Dust is a companion series to Amélie Bouvier’s Moonlight on the Sun, also drawing on damaged glass plate photographs from the Observatoire de Paris, site Meudon. While Moonlight on the Sun presents larger, complete views of solar imagery, Solar Dust turns toward the details. In a smaller, rectangular format, each drawing focuses on a single fragment where texture, light and trace become central. Bouvier isolates marks that might otherwise go unnoticed: a grain of dust, the curve of a fingerprint, a fading solar flare. These minimal compositions invite close viewing and reward attention to the subtleties of surface. Her mark-making moves between precise, controlled strokes and softer, gestural impressions, echoing both the fragility and complexity of the original photographic plates.

Through this intimate scale, Solar Dust reveals how meaning can reside in what seems marginal. Bouvier repositions damage, residue and loss as essential parts of how we experience and interpret the past. In doing so, she offers a quiet reflection on impermanence and the poetic potential of archival material.