I work in series. For each of them, I have the same objective, to create a poetic relationship with the person looking at the painting. It is about, from an idea, a color, or simply, a trace, imagining a motif. It is on this motif that the relationship occurs to go beyond a strictly figurative representation. It is about leaving, as much as possible, the field free to an interpretation, a diffuse sensation and, I hope, to a kind of dream.

What interests me in painting is its poetic intensity. It is a space that goes far beyond the simple representation of things. Another territory where the question of time, space, being and ultimately life unfolds.

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