Making digital paintings of the Lascaux cave
Every year, the Minestory project brings together classes from all over France who study a monument or a historic site before rebuilding it in Luanti. In 2023, its national congress was held in Terrasson-Lavilledieu, near Lascaux, and we ran a workshop there that was mostly imagined and built by Thomas François and Lemente.
The pupils had visited the replica of the cave. Their entrance tickets, which reproduced parts of the cave paintings, became the models for the workshop.
In a voxel cave built for the occasion, the children chose their colours from a palette close to prehistoric pigments and reproduced the outlines of the animals, pixel by pixel. Looking for the right wall or the best nook for their drawing, they pictured how the people of that time used these spaces, so the workshop extended the morning visit rather than repeating it.
