Inspiration

The title and the quotations used in this project come from two books written by Robert M. Pirsig : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals.

For Pirsig, the prevailing view in our society is the scientific paradigm. This cultural perspective on the reality would work exactly like the immune biological system : it would systematically reject any other way of comprehending the reality, judged dangerous for its surviving. Pirsig calls the phenomenon The cultural immune system. True, the mental is a powerful tool to get a clearer understanding of the reality we live in, but it's not the only one. That's what this project is about.

Inspiration

This series is build around the architectural design of Frank Gehry, more specifically the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. My intention here is not to represent an accurate image of the building, but to propose a distorted reality of the environment it creates. In order to do that, I chose to turn to the same tools as Gehry, that is the deconstruction of surfaces, the eclecticism of forms and colors, the saturation of lighting effects and reflections which made the particularity of Gehry's creations.

Inspiration

This series proposes a transformed image of urban environments digitally captured in different cities.

Inspiration

Calligraphers and painters

«[…] When the rain falls, it falls
When the wind blows, it blows.»

Inspiration

The Japanese kanjis, both signs and gestures, are here to be seen as simple forms that offer a pretext to explore the Chinese ink as medium.

Inspiration

In creation, the subject is only a pretext.

So, why not simply choose the very same subject as a springboard for the creation process?

Inspiration

Shodo: the Way (Do) of the calligraphy

In the Shodo, we apply to reproduce again and again ideograms in order to size their proportions, balance and rhythm.

Inspiration

How to invent a poem without words?

Of all time, poetry and literature were always the inspiration sources par excellence for the visual artists.

Inspiration

According to the adopted point of view, time and space are either one concept or two.

Inspiration

A pretext to mezzotint

Miller's comics series, inspired by the after war crime novels, take place in Sin City, a megalopolis consumed by the decay of the social order.