His works, Clovis Petit creates them from ideas inspired by his finds in secondhand trades and space-attics: objects and books of any kinds form the material, not raw but already full of history.
The artist pursues this work of collection when, scalpel in the hand, he proceeds to the surgical cut, on the principle of the anonymous letter. Words which, literally stuck on the others, will come to compose curious but potentially published poems (by his own publishing house of unique works, I.F.P.P (for It Is necessary to Think Positive Publishing) and/or put in mouth during performances.
This practice of the collage, Clovis Petit applies it not only to fine literary persons but also persons with a strong visual sense. Particularly keen on illustrated encyclopediae and other books of the 60s, because of their various iconographical source and of their singular grain, he extracts from it some elements wich the association generates images marked with onirism even nonsense. A children's game he also declines through big colourings, where the accumulation and the superimposing of the motives scatter the confusion and, following the example of certain tales as he likes to divert, may fall over to a register from now on reserved for the adults...
Objects do not escape this technique of the assemblage, which constitutes the main thread of an auto-generative multimedia practice and de facto, essentially autorepository, like a snake which is not afraid of bitting itself the tail.