I'm interested in digital strip photography, pastel drawing and digital video. Gaining inspiration on the street, in the shops or even between the sheets, I transform my images into lead soldiers, elongated and sinuous arms, multi-cephalic beings, clones, caterpillar-women, androcats or hippopotamen. From a hand in motion, octopodes, crabs of sea monsters may spring forth.

Such shapes may be strange and beautiful, but they are real. As long as there is motion, they surround us wherever we are. To see them, not only would you have to contemplate the universe through a very narrow slit, but also the human brain would have to be capable of memorising each individual slice of movement as if seen through that narrow slit, and of piecing them together one next to the other as in a straw beach-mat. This process would be somewhat akin to the human brain recalling sequences of music and recreating them as short individual snippets of tunes that we chant to ourselves. It is definitely easier to remember a series of musical notes that one has heard than a multitude of colours in motion that one has observed through a slit. Perhaps it's just a question of training, practice and time.

In the meantime, in order to make these images visible I have to proceed via a lengthy procedure. First, I record movies on my smart-phone and then I process the resulting films by means of a short computer programme I recently developed. Thus, I can view the hundreds of frames that I have recorded and, when luck is on my side, I discover the fabulous creatures that lurk within. They were really there at the time of filming, but nobody could see them because the brain isn't up to it. Some of these creatures seem to be deserving of further attention. When this is the case, I pay them homage by pastel painting them.

Many thanks to David Brown for translation!