Like a lot of children, I was very curious about natural phenomena, which led me to study geophysics. After a while, I was unsatisfied with the scientific rational approach. Instead, I was drawn by the intuitive way of sensibility. I finally skipped the laboratory work for the art studio session. However, the interrogations about nature and the universe remain the spine of my work.

The start of a new piece is a drawing (or several drawings). For me, the difficulty is to find the right state where spontaneity is able to express, so that the piece will not be not prisonner froma the drawing.

Archie Shepp used to say he spent all his life trying to rediscover the first «bad sounds» he made when beginning saxophone. I am running after this state of beginner spontaneity.

I start the day working with some gymnastics and meditation exercises. A solid breakfast, and then I spend some «computer-time», answering the last Ygael emails. Then I go to my studio on the other side of the house. Sometimes I go into the forest around to look for a new piece of wood. After lunch, a creative nap to think about the work in progress (the thinking reaches its summit when snoring appears) and back to the studio. The creative work, which often consists of drawing, occurs in informal moments, drinking coffee anywhere but not in the studio.

I started working with stone, then metal, and finally wood. The wood has its own shape, which brings a random shape into my work. So the final result is the meeting between my intention and the wood’s intention. I like that at one moment, the piece escapes from me to affirm its own life.