"My stubbornness - my beautiful concern - is color. I work for several months on large canvases, until something vibrant appears in the covering, the transfer, and the movement. It is the vegetal that appears, but it is the underlying organic that interests me.
“My obstinacy—my beautiful concern—is color. I work for several months on large canvases, until something vibrant appears in the covering, the transfer, and the movement. It is the vegetal that appears, but it is the underlying organic that interests me. I look for the pulp in the rhizome or in the leaf, to account for the fleeting vision of growth or bursting. I proceed by successive layers, all of which contaminate each other and all of which retain the trace of the pentimenti. Each color feeds on the one it covers.
The perilous paintings that sometimes require months of work and the jubilant paintings, done very quickly, have in common the impetus - an idea! - the desire to go for it, to launch oneself, the fleeting vision that whets the appetite. I like the beginning, the attack. The hour of possibilities.
"It's only wonder that gives me the feeling of moving forward. I can't do what I've already been able to do."
On the wall of the studio, a phrase from Manet: "I am influenced by everyone. Every time I put my hands in my pockets, I find someone else's fingers there."
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