Image Poetry
Love to be loved
November 2008
Inspired by the work of Fabien Barral, the love of the typo and beautiful songs from Björk, Peter Gabriel and John Lennon around the theme of love. Love is an endless fall and everybody needs it. The idea started with the quote of Fabien Barral that says: „Designers are meant to be loved not to be understood“ and he’s right!
Swimming in qualia
February 2008
Stars of the lid
December 2007
Cocteau Twins
May 2007
The process of creation
March 2007
This poster doesn't follow the precedent "Heart of Darkness", it completes it! Both images tell the process of creation and the birth of salvation.There is always a part of the creator that dies. Sometimes death can be a useful inspiration for another creation. It is almost like a phoenix. Creation rises from its own ashes and lives on as a new creation.
Lullaby
February 2007
I wanted something positive but dark, something between hope and despair. In short: A creation that gives you a good feeling. Lots of vectors, a little Photoshop-ing and much passion give birth to a huge emotional landscape. I took me only a few hours to complete the work, so it does look a bit unrefined. And before I went to bed I wanted that this image to tell me a story. A lullaby with a princess and a dragon. Good night!
Heart of darkness
February 2007
Inspired by the film "Pan's Labyrinth" from Guillermo Del Toro and the album "He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Rooms" by A Silver Mt. Zion. From the movie I took the brutality and the power of dreams. The musical score lifted me up into higher realms. I do love the the contrast of light and darkness, passion and love. The bleeding heart is mostly created of imagges of flowers. The background is bright and accentuate the pain. This work lies between hope and despair.
Over the rainbow
September 2005
When my cousin passed away, I made an huge image, an Emotional Landscape. It was my first creation in full vector. I had not seen my cousin for more than fifteen years and now she's gone.
Well, I think the image is easy to undertsand. I often think of her, and hope that she found a new life, over the rainbow.
In praise of dreams
April 2005
At this time I knew that I would change. The obsession with the abstract and the discovery of the green, gave me a new hope. I've made an opus in Unfolding but it wasn't enough. So I put in a little more dark and I made after a long process of self discovering, this huge poster in one day, an Emotionnal Landscape in fact.
Sweet revenge
February 2005
Sweet Revenge was born with a need for happy colours. Like a candy, like the movie "Amelie from Montmartre". One more time I used abstract forms in 3D and had fun with photoshop. With this series of image was the unFolding's opus "Memories of Dreams" is born. When people see this work it gives them a good feeling and they are happy.
Anatomy of a poet
July 2003
Heart, is an organ of Fire It was a revelation for me. I felt that it touched something deep. I wanted to show the inner creation of the poet, what he occurs when it creates. I made a special attention to all the small organic elements. The poster is done with a little 3D and a lot of Photoshop.
Soul, starblind fade to silence A few days later, "soul" continues the work of the inner creation. Here too, I paid particular attention to organic elements. There is a very little 3D and much much more Photoshop. The Original files are more than 100 Layers.
Brainstorm After the succes of creation for the two preceding pieces, I wanted one more that completes my wall at home. I wanted more colour than only the red. I wanted to show the multiple facetes of the brain. Unfortunately "Brainstorm" has not he same magic like the other pieces.
The spirit of Eden
April 2003
Happiness
Everything has begun with a desire: brights colours in a metallic and sharp-edged world. A triptic of the garden of Eden.
The spirit of Eden knows three feelings of love. The first "Luck" - where everything found its foundations.
Starless
The second feeling is "Starless". One hopes to see the light at the end of the tunnel. One needs something, where one can hold on.
This feeling often returns, because one balancing from a corner to the other one and thus always goes through the center.
Madness
The colours become pale. The forms pointedly, as thousand meter or splintered glass, that came of a book of mirrors. A book full of mirrors. Once again I spent the evening before the mirror, in order to talk with someone.
The cave of swimmers
January 2001
The Cave of Swimmers
Inspired by the movie "The English Patient" with a particular scene where the expedition discover swimming peoples in a cave. I imagined the time before all that dried. A beautiful "Atlantis", a place of pleasure where water was everywhere. Beauty, water and plentitude are the main words.
Heart is an Organ of Fire
I was so satisfied with my work, that I planned tryptic. In this image poetry is almost a declaration of love. The photos of the women are very sensual and the sand of their hands invite us.
Swoon, I'll catch you
Here the picture of the foot are a little blurred. Love is everywhere. It was important that I used the same Typo (Nuptial Script) for all the series and the same universe of water. The small white texte is an extract from the movie.
The Legend of Candaules
A few days later I made one more image poetry for the birthday of my sister. My work was done, but I did not want to leave The Cave of Swimmers. I made this image with other colours. In that fact The Legend of Candaules is attached to The Cave of Swimmers series but not completely.
