Observing the world is the raw material of my work. Energy, landscape, the origin of the world, and anthropomorphism are recurring themes that I shape, distort, and transform with humor through drawing, sculpture, or film.
Before this experience, my work mainly focused on the traces of humans in the landscape. Immersed in this wild environment, swept by the force of the natural elements, I was initially overwhelmed with anxiety. It was no longer about the imprint of humans on the landscape, but the imprint of the landscape on myself.
Through isolation, I entered into dialogue with the elements. The energy of nature reconnected me with the energy I had previously seen in mechanical landscapes. The sea became an erotic landscape, the lighthouses, phallus erectus, the cliffs, humid vaginas, the ebb and flow of the tide in perpetual ecstasy… As creation replaced anxiety, I produced hundreds of drawings. The marine vocabulary, signifying the origin of life, inspired me with wordplays and images that carried me adrift, drifting into a tide of ideas, giving birth to animated sein-tillations.
Every intense experience leaves traces… “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.” One stormy day, I created drawings by letting ink flow over the outer surface of the semaphore’s windows. Washed away by rain and wind, the ink formed ephemeral landscapes. I later recreated this process in my studio. Currently, I paint on the surface of a vertical pane of glass, behind which I have built a lightbox. Each addition of material, each erasure, is photographed. The sequence of these still images creates animated paintings.
Since my immersion in this mobile-island landscape, I have continued to explore the infinite techniques of animation. Like waves that follow, are born, and disappear, each image fades to reveal a new one. This succession of disappearances, the sequence of these unfinished images, creates a sense of time, a narrative, and brings the drawing to life.
