Outdoors inspirations

 

 

It is always inspiring not to look at the way it appears at first glance, but at what we may find when our imagination is let go free. For, to paraphrase Mark Twain, “Vision is probably the art of seeing invisible things”.

When we take the time to read the great book of nature, we find lines, curves, shapes, textures, infinite details, exquisite curiosities, hidden everywhere. Creativity is my driving force and light the raw material. Nature is music and poetry with a meaning far more deep than everything man is able to create. And with the greatest generosity and for our greatest delight, nature offers us all infinite peculiarities and displays endless realms beyond the obvious things. They stimulate our curiosity and amaze our quotidian mind.

In the words of Gauguin “The artist must not copy nature but take elements of it to create another one”. Gaugin's taking elements to create another is my guide and mantra, my way of writing visual poetry when I am anywhere outdoors.

In this approach deeply marked by the greatest humility, photography then becomes the ideal medium: a simple image sometimes managing to transmit a message more powerful and evocative than any speech or initiative favorable to a better consideration of all these pieces of the puzzle essential to our well-being.