Believe it or not, everything is changing all the time. Life is movement. A subtle
balance between slow and fast. Expectation is respiration, conscience is meditation,
movement is creation.
Collages come primarily from the mind whose energies help to feel the choices, the
harmonies and the movement of creation. The body hardly moves, in the process of
cutting out or gluing. Slowness and extreme care are of the essence.
Inks and acrylics call for the body which comes alive in the same way. Gestures
become larger and faster. The whole body readies itself and at the right moment, from
foot to hand, joins the brush in the act of expression. Poise and spontaneity are of the
essence.
When I am creating I don't know what is going to happen. I improvise. I let my hands
take over.
The act of creating is spiritual in nature. I travel from the slow and meticulous process
of cutting out to the outpouring and fluid movements of calligraphy, being knowingly
surprised by the result … Since I was small, I have always loved being surprised !
Balance versus imbalance, space, light, poetry, transparency, material: these are my
main sources of inspiration.
And then, there is dance, and my encounter with Carolyn Carlson. We shared the same
idea about light, spirituality, the need for improvisation, and a mutual attraction to
oriental philosophies. She invited me to paint while she was dancing in Paris and later
when performing in Seville.
Thanks to her, I discovered the joy of spontaneity, and of instinctive and intuitive
gesture. Movement came alive, my brushes danced.
