Blaise Cayol is "Celui qui tresse"
This name is the best to qualify his work and to give a meaning both precise and general to his activity.
He ties and gathers together (and weaves) natural material different kinds of willow, wood of chesnut-tree, juniper, birch and gourds.
First, Blaise is a basket maker. He thinks that the baskets represent the basic technique for the weaving.
They are the foundation of the human culture and intelligence: Store = Anticipation, no future without receptacle, no civilasation without stock.
Blaise is looking for the use of new processes and for this, he is working with landscape designers, architect and other artists in all Europe countries.
Travelling several times in Apache, Navajo, Pueblo and Hopi lands in the southwest of North America, he met many native artists and basket makers.
There, he has been inspired to create personnages with wood, wiker and gourd.
Theses sculptures are reminiscence of his several trips in the Canyon de Chelly and the Rio Grande Valley.
They recall the first human representations carved on the rock.
Knowing that the Anasazi (the first prehistoric Indians) were called " basket maker ", it's an evidente connection for " Celui qui tresse ".