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I am a French artist from the Southwest of France. My work unfolds through photography, video, writing, music, and artificial intelligence. I also conduct workshops on cinema, photography, and AI, sharing both technique and the way these mediums open a space for something beyond the visible.

At the heart of everything I do lies a simple conviction: there is more to the world than what can be seen or spoken. Photography was, at first, a substitute for language—a way to express what words would only diminish, to capture in an instant what would otherwise escape. Over time, I extended this search into moving images, working on independent films and creating my own videos, always looking for that imperceptible shift, the moment where reality becomes uncertain, where something lingers just beyond reach.

For more than twenty years, I have practiced photography daily, drawn to the way time passes through things, how it leaves its mark, how it erases. My images often deal with time, erosion, the silent persistence of nature, and the fragile beauty of life.

Music is another way in which I work with time. Through distortion, I stretch it, slow it down, let sounds resonate and settle. I compose my own music for my videos, allowing sound and image to grow together, to form a single entity.

I have followed the generative AI revolution with great attention, not only as a means to create images but as a way to explore the interior world. In the same way that early photographers revealed what had never been seen before, AI allows me to access what was never photographed, never recorded, yet still exists—somewhere in memory, in dreams, in the collective unconscious. It is not a tool to replace, but a tool to reveal.

The labyrinth is a recurring figure in my work. It is not a place of confusion but of transformation—a house where time folds upon itself, where memories take new forms, where images rearrange their meaning. It is a structure that is never fully known, where paths turn back onto themselves, where the visible and the invisible meet.

I keep my projects small, handling every stage myself to preserve their coherence, to remain close to the original vision.

I write in English because it brought me back to writing after twenty-five years. The distance of another language has allowed me to reclaim words, to find a voice again.

I use X every day to test ideas, to connect with the world of thought. My more developed work is published on Substack. Some of my visual work appears on Instagram.

Here, I will post one thing at a time. It may be text, photography, AI images, video, sound, essays, short literary texts, or reflections on works that matter to me. I began with diary-essays on the passage of seasons, then documented my AI work in detail. Now, I want to focus on more direct, standalone pieces, letting each work exist for itself, allowing each image, each thought, to unfold in its own space.

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Artist working with photo, video, music, writing & AI. From latent images to latent space.