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Series "The Scarecrows":

Mute and powerless witnesses, looking at the irreversible upheavals of our world.

"The Scarecrow" Mutes and impotent viewers, look in their eyes the irreversible dislocation of our world.

After achieving, at the end of 2017, a series of realistic, expressionist large formats (Les épouvantails) (The scarecrows), expressing our mutism and my helpless gaze on the tragic events that upset our world. But, I had to simplify them then...by dropping out the lines, the expression of the figure, of the picture. 

A certain level of maturity allowed me then to express, no longer with the shape but with the pure substance, feelings, and memories, through colors and finally blacks.
Painting memory to me, is what is left in me from that figurative time which fades away and gets transformed into simple impressions, until it becomes sensation and abstraction. 

Our memory captures particular instants linked to particular places and particular fragrances, the memory of those missing...
Intangible traces of elusive past moments, or intimate permanent scars.
Unfortunately, our memory does not permanently retain these blurred emotions, secret instants, whether tragic or happy, these precious moments. 

Ineluctably, they fade away, disintegrate, are erased and tend to disappear...