Influenced by her mime work at the Montreuil school theater, Michèle Burles conceives her compositions as small, orderly, and thoughtful sketches. She favors papers with visible fibers (Nepalese, Korean, Tibetan paper) on which she traces slender silhouettes with a pen, evoking forms that are sometimes human or animal, sometimes indefinable because they come directly from her imagination. She cuts out, hollows out, and sews her drawings together with silver thread, creating lace-like paper bas-reliefs.

In this rich and delicate world of interlacing and entanglement, she inserts poems, words, or simply letters. The surface of her works is uniformly covered, drawing the viewer's eye to observe a whole, in which words, images, and texts are treated with equal importance.