The work is part of a series of drawings called “Shéma representing me“. Here the artists represents himself as, for instance the ideal fiancé, sitting next to his girlfriend. He tries to pick up the pieces that the accident shattered around him. Through art everything can be assembled, gathered and ordered: the drawing forms the framework of a “perfect” existence. Dominique Théâte has created a plan, a diagram, a simplified and functional representation of an object, movement or process. A simple, functional schema. An equation to say, “I live”. (text after Christian Berst).