Sky Master	To Call Pierre Fabre a kite maker is like calling Picasso nothing more than a painter. For the true artist sees the unseen. We appreciate Picasso because through his work, we enter into his world of wonderment, experience the joy of finding new beginnings. Redefining our notions about color, form and structure, he challenges the eye and the mind to reassess the boundaries of seeing. Fabre's "performances" do that for me. His creations are nothing short of collaborations between man and nature that come into being when the breath of life fills the air sacs made of bamboo, nylon and paper. Watching gives the sensation of having experienced something akin to the moment when a mother feels the movement of her child. The birth of a kite is that moment when material becomes one with the heavens, when that "tug" of life, like a heart beat or the cry of a newborn baby, announces its presence. "It's something that you feel at the end of the string or cord," said the misty-eyed artist. "It's the closet thing I know to giving birth." The red, black, white and gold colors used in his constructions are what he calls "the introduction of constrast" into the heavens. For that reason, a brilliant blue is the perfect medium for his constructions. The Paris-born artist is greatly influenced by art out of Africa and the South Pacific. Clearly realized forms and inspired shades of bright colors sets his work apart-- along with the size, which may be as large as 100 meters. Words have their limitations when talking about his creations. The rest we can only experience when we take hold of the string.

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