The characteristic scribbles of the French illustrator Jean Jullien come to life as sculptures at Le Jardin des Plantes in Nantes, France, as they float gently between the ponds and the large public garden.

The graphic designer from Nantes has decided to take part in the festival “Le Voyage“, creating four large installations in the botanical gardens, which are presented in the form of oversized figures and color-blocks drawn with his unique style of black lines.

In one section of the garden, the elongated, rubbery arms of three figures are stuck together embracing a grove of trees, while in another area a rake-handed character scrapes the earth.
Then we also find a nice pink character of eight meters long floats on his back in one of the ponds of the garden, bathing and spitting water. While on the opposite side an orange figure walks merrily through the gardens while its long locks of ivy tangles behind it.

Each sculpture is designed in the typically sketchy style of Jean Jullien, and is made of flat sheets of bent metal or polyurethane foam, covered with bright colours and outlined with black paint.