First of all, I feel at home in several languages: in French, my mother tongue, but also in English and German, not to mention several attempts at learning Spanish or Korean. This brought huge discoveries along the way, but also many questions. What does the language I speak actually say? In which direction does it take me? Does it express the same thing as the language used in a neighbouring country to describe the same reality? Where/What is reality? Is objectivity possible? What are the underlying social and cultural messages? Is it possible for us as human beings to develop our full potential by relying only on rational thinking and logics, as the Western world has been keen to tell us for centuries? These questions and challenges have influenced my life – as a creator and as a translator.
Then, I have lived or spent time in different areas of the world: France, Africa, Germany, English-speaking countries, Korea, India, Mexico …
Then, I have lived or spent time in different areas of the world: France, Africa, Germany, English-speaking countries, Korea, India, Mexico …
Over time, many people, painters, writers and thinkers have influenced and inspired me. I think of the French poets Jacques Prévert and Jean Tardieu, of different French-speaking African writers like Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor or the American thinkers Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, of anthropologists and shamans such as Alberto Villoldo and Michael Harner, or of the Sufi poet Rumi. The Bauhaus, Dali, Rembrandt and Turner also played a role. As well as Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Coleridge or … The list could be extended at length.
As a result, I like to intertwine and combine the many elements I have gleaned along the way to create, discover, renew and have fun. To find meaning in life, as a (small) world constantly interacting with smaller or larger worlds…
This reminds me of the set theory and of those circles we had to draw during math class: There were isolated circles, circles located within one another, intersecting circles, the intersection of which described a new set that we had to define …
As a result, I like to intertwine and combine the many elements I have gleaned along the way to create, discover, renew and have fun. To find meaning in life, as a (small) world constantly interacting with smaller or larger worlds…
This reminds me of the set theory and of those circles we had to draw during math class: There were isolated circles, circles located within one another, intersecting circles, the intersection of which described a new set that we had to define …
Dear visitor, this website invites you to go on a journey through my personal worlds of writing, masks, and events.
The ball is now in your court, and I encourage you to weave along, and to interact with this virtual space.
Perhaps, hopefully, you’ll feel inspired to further investigate your own personal worlds …
Perhaps, hopefully, you’ll feel inspired to further investigate your own personal worlds …