Meet Sébastien Preschoux
“This is probably the most difficult exercise I’ve ever done. The surface was small, but the emotion behind it was immense.”
Geometry in Motion
Sébastien Preschoux is a Paris-based visual artist who has spent over two decades exploring the tension between precision and imperfection. Entirely self-taught, he left a conventional path to pursue optical and geometric art, developing a practice rooted in line, rhythm, and spatial illusion.
Working entirely by hand, he creates intricate drawings and large-scale installations that translate time, patience, and repetition into visual structure. His work exists between control and chance, where geometry becomes a form of emotion.
Precision in Every Line
For VIEREN, Sébastien Preschoux reinterprets the watch dial as a condensed extension of his large-scale geometric works. Using ultra-fine mechanical pens and drafting tools, he constructs a perfectly balanced composition within a 2cm x 3cm surface, with each line drawn by hand to form a structured rhythm of symmetry and tension.
The result is a composition that exists between order and imperfection—where precision is not mechanical, but human. It becomes a distilled expression of his practice, translating expansive geometric systems into a confined space where discipline, intuition, and emotion converge.
“I wanted to combine the work of the human hand (and its imperfection sometimes) with that of the precision and delicacy of the object.”
The Mechanical Heartbeat
Sébastien’s first memory of a watch is of his father winding it each morning. He loved the sound of the mechanism, imagining the tiny gears working inside. Later, it was the ticking of the watch near his ear when he was held in his father’s arms, a sound like a second heartbeat.
He channeled this memory into his design, embodying the patience, process, and beauty found in restraint. Inside the watch is a snapshot of Sébastien’s creative world—a distillation of hours, movement, and meaning. But more than that, it’s a reminder that time belongs to all of us and its value lies in how we connect to it.
“Everyone is equal when it comes to time, the difference is in what we do with it. All my artistic work is based on this precious dimension.”
A Moment Etched in Time
For Sébastien, time is the ultimate currency—irretrievable, equal for all, and central to the value of art. His choice to work entirely by hand is a stand against speed and disposability. Accustomed to expansive formats, he faced the inverse challenge here: compressing scale without losing intent.
Working on a dial no larger than a postage stamp, every gesture had to be exact—no room for hesitation, no tolerance for error. Using tools meant for architectural drafts and maps, he drew a perfectly centred, symmetrical composition. What emerged is more than design: a union of human imperfection with the precision and delicacy of the object itself.
“While I could produce with a machine or a computer, I choose to produce everything manually, taking the time to savour each moment of creation.”
Sébastien Preschoux
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