Instead of living a compartmentalized life, I chose to bring together everything I am passionate about into one single adventure: travel, sharing, writing, mobile art, creation, and encounters.
This blog becomes the place where I bring it all together, a living space to share what I discover as a whole. Its reflects my view, my perspective on my world, my creative process, and my artworks, while also touching on other inspiring and interconnected subjects. You’ll find reflections on art and creativity, but also on my travels, those explorations of the outer world that so deeply nourish my inner world. Every place I visit, every encounter, every landscape becomes a source of inspiration, another piece in the puzzle of my artistic sensibility.
Getting to know artists and their inner worlds seems essential to me, as it feeds and illuminates the creative process.
Being an artist has slowly revealed to me that this powerful connection with our creativity can extend into every facet of our lives. I believe it is essential to express ourselves through a whole, unfragmented lens, one that reflects the fullness of who we are.
I invite you to immerse yourself in this poetic universe, freely and without judgment, in the hope that it will resonate with some. Perception is always evolving, always in motion. Contradictions are part of the journey; they are natural companions on any inner quest.
As an opening reflection, I offer you the exploration of a well-known fable from Asia: "The Blind Men and the Elephant."
Six blind men are asked to describe an elephant. Each of them touches only one part of the animal. They then share their experiences. When it’s time to compare their perceptions, they are faced with a choice: harmonize, complement one another… or clash. Does that sound familiar?
My takeaway from this story: humans often claim their worldview, their perspective, as the truth. But is there only one truth, or billions of perspectives that together might form the beginning of a truth? A viewpoint is, ultimately, subjective, filtered through the lens of the one who holds it. I believe it is far richer to welcome every perspective with respect and curiosity, whether or not it resonates with us, as one would welcome a color, or a single element of a vast collage, of an ever-evolving mural.
In this blog, I humbly offer you a relative, yet creative, version of my reality, shaped by art, life, human connection, and travel. We never truly know what we’ll discover on the other side of the window… because it all depends on which window we’re looking through.
P.S.: My native language is French. All texts are written in French and translated into English using automatic translation. I’m not yet able to have the English versions reviewed, so I kindly ask for your understanding regarding any errors you may find.
The Blind Men and the Elephant
(Excerpt from Wikipedia – Asia)
A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to town, but none of them knew what it looked like. Out of curiosity, they said, “We must examine it and learn what it’s like by touch, which is within our ability.” So they sought it out, and when they found it, they groped around it.
The first, whose hand landed on the trunk, said, “This being is like a thick snake.”
Another, whose hand reached the ear, said it was a kind of fan.
Someone else, whose hand rested on the leg, said, “The elephant is a pillar, like a tree trunk.”
The blind man who placed his hand on its side said the elephant “is a wall.”
Another who touched its tail described it as a rope.
The last one, who touched its tusk, declared the elephant to be hard, smooth, and like a spear.
In some versions, the blind men then discover their disagreements, accuse each other of lying, and end up fighting. The versions differ mainly in the descriptions of the elephant's body parts, the intensity of the conflict, and how (or whether) the disagreement is resolved.
In certain tellings, they stop speaking, begin to listen, and collaborate in order to “see” the whole elephant. In another version, a sighted person enters the story and describes the entire elephant from different perspectives. The blind men then realize they were all partly right and partly wrong.
The lesson: even if someone’s subjective experience is true, it may not represent the whole truth.
