"Lignes de vie III" (2026) is a large-format work in handmade linen paper, natural paint, and canvas (80 x 100 cm), the third in Belgian artist Sophie De Zutter's ongoing series exploring "lines of life" — the marks, creases, and growth-lines found across natural surfaces.

The linen paper that forms the work's foundation is handmade using traditional papermaking techniques learned through the transmission of an ancestral craft, lending the piece its raw, organic character from the outset. Worked with natural pigments and built-up layers, the surface slowly unfolds to reveal the richness of cracks, roughness, and delicate nuances, etching fine, branching lines across its expanse.

At this scale, De Zutter's play with light, texture, and depth takes on an almost topographic quality, with fragility and strength held in delicate balance throughout the composition. The result is a quietly absorbing piece, somewhere between abstract landscape and meditation on time and natural process, well suited to spaces that invite slow, contemplative viewing.