t all started with a film discovered in 1989: "Camille Claudel" with Isabelle Adjani (Oscar-nominated for this role)
and Gérard Depardieu.
From one day to the next, everything changed. I changed my dreams, my desires, my job, my calendar... It's at Adam's (an
artist's equipment store) that my eyes fell on an ad: "Artist's studio offers spaces with live models. Contact Annick". The next day I started my first work. I did not stop until the birth of my children.
1997, my daughters are five years old, and I decide to go back to the studio. A few months later, Annick advises me to
go work alone, because "alone, you will progress better".
It was hard, working in a group protects, and human encounters also bring answers... That's where it all started from.
Monumental Art leads to a significant difficulty to create details and find the perfect harmony.
– Mina Feingold 47.50
Why the monumental? I don't know. I don't know how to answer everything.
My father had a workshop in his garden. I had the place, the space too. Everything was there, and all I had to do was
let myself go and grasp the material to create inspiration.
But for the first time, I was face to face with myself, left to my own questioning: what is the limit of the physical?
What is the limit of sculpture? And then the form and the content. Matter and substance. The encounter with matter and
form?
Bronze is noble. I chose bronze in the beginning.
Since then, I have ventured into other materials: plaster, metal and welding with The Derwich; resin, aluminum and glass with Cube7.
I like the big, the volume, the heavy.
I don't like constraints, I know, however, to constrain myself to it. The monumental, it is also a greater difficulty to
realize the detail, to find harmony. It's a longer path...
I have always made my monumental hand-drawn pictures, except for The Derwich which I enlarged with a pantograph.
I work intuitively and I can only create if I am well.
With time, I discover what connects me in a particular way to my works: after twenty years of monumental women, Le Derwich is my inner man: "In women, emotion triggers thought. In the man, it is the thought that triggers the emotion".
Finally, Cube7, the Universality. Maturity? Coming wisdom.
Today, the trajectory is still in progress... And I know that I am not yet finished with the monumental ones.../p>
