Unlike photography, in painting light is born from matter. Pictorial figuration does not capture a presence; it fosters it, extricating it from the mud. Rembrandt knew something about that… Thus, painting is particularly complicit with memory, capable of evoking reminiscence. As for colors, I see them as regimes, modalities of matter. And form, it is the product of an abstraction; when dominant, it suffocates. Therefore, it must be handled with the utmost care.
