What are Creatures ?
Creature is a term which was chosen to be used as a tool. Without clear definition, the term tries to create/find/regroup that which embodies aliveness, ubiquity, uncanniness, multilayeredness and limitlessness. Creatures can take the form of animals, plants/flowers, hybrids, structures, shapes, and much more. The humain power of imagination is their source. As imagination sprouts out of each one’s interiority, Creatures also invite to explore the inner microcosms that we all are made of. Depending on their moment of appearance, they have the ability to reflect, soothe, inspire, guide, empower, confuse, trigger, etc.
First Creatures :
Self-portrait, colored pencils and eraser, 9 years oldPokemons, real/plush animals, cartoons, toys, fables, etc. were predecessors for me. I think Creatures already showed up in my early childhood drawings/paintings. It’s the process of spontaneous creation which let me express my inner world emotionally, than rather rationally. This is how I’ve been creating since. Now I build Creatures which are settled in a fictional, mostly natural environment, and interact with the viewer through non-verbal language. They are charged with psychological/spiritual subjects and suggest archetypal patterns. My everyday life is also inhabitated by Creatures which I encounter spontaneously. However, despite my effort to find words to grasp their existence, I believe that Creatures are unseizable.
How to create/find/regroup them :
Creatures can be built through artistical expression, thus the process of creation arises from within and is transfered into the exterior.
They can also be found during day-to-day life through Encounters. In this case their existence comes from the exterior and is transferred into the interior. Imaginative interpretation, anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, synesthesia, animism, etc. can make these Encounters more apparent.
Creatures :
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