My favourite and maybe my best.

June 21. Summer Solstice.

"The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation."
- Patti Smith
(© Just Kids)

An old friend on its way to new shores. 

I painted him on the reverse side of an APC paper bag.

It must have been in the mid 1990's.

I've had the bad habit not to date my works, 

I'm doing it now. 

Sailors, have been an obsession of mine all my life,

possibly because I have this fantasy about life at sea,

the freedom of it, the comfort of feeling out of reach from the world.

The style of this gouache, not a watercolour for once, was inspired by the

early works of Picasso, hence the massive hand holding the shell. 

It's been on my wall in Paris, rue Geoffroy l'Angevin

and then was stored away ever since we moved in 2002.

It has now been purchased by my old friend Adrien,

a third addition to what he has collected from me. 

June, 20 2023 

The Dervish and his Red Fish.

June 17, 2023

The final touch.

 

First of a pair of wall sconces in the making.

June 15, 2023

I had this idea in mind for a while and I'm not sure it will work but now it's done and out of the way.

I thought of Pasolini's Medea.

My guitar Alhambra model 2C

made in Spain.

We two are inseparable.

The garden today.

It's been a rainy spring.

June 14th, 2023

June 14th, 2023

Works piling up at home.

San Donato in Poggio,

Toscana.

June, 13, 2023

L'Uomo Pesce

On show throughout the summer 2023

at the Palacio de Cadaval, Evora, Portugal

curated by Pierre Passebon. 

At the workshop in Sambuca.

Tuscany. 

Winter 2022 / 2023

June 6, 2023 

Raw and not fired.

Size is about a meter long.

June 12, 2023

June 12, 2023