To innovate, you have to be inspired.
Easy to say, less easy to do.
Especially when innovation is subject to constraints, sometimes strict ones.
This is the case of commissioned works. These works are made for a particular person or entity and therefore meet certain requirements.
This most often translates into specific iconography.
For example, one of my clients wanted a work that expressed the idea of a spiritual journey.
To answer his request, I conducted an interview to understand what he put behind his words, his intention and the destination of this work.
Because the work serves a discourse, an intention, intellectual, spiritual and emotional.
Inspiration, the first step in creation, is a movement. In painting, it is that of the mind towards the hand, then from the hand towards the canvas.
When the mind descends towards the concrete, towards the physical reality of the canvas, it translates ideas into forms; like language, these forms are articulated in a coherent whole and aim, in my works, for harmony.
It is supported by color, whose symbolic meaning adds an ontological and emotional dimension to the work.
The combination of these already existing elements creates new, unprecedented combinations: this is the heart of innovation.
Picasso said: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Steve Jobs added: “We've always been ashamed of stealing great ideas... I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people who worked on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”
