The contrasts in contents, techniques, colors, atmosphere or luminosity are a source of fascination. Of these confrontations are born new ideas. In my recent works, the various images are reunited on the same canvas, this returns a less unpredictable confrontation.

I mix frequently the representational and the abstract. These two approaches are additional and necessary and appear simultaneously on the same canvas.

Besides this approach, I am fascinated by the functioning of the brain on visual perceptions: the perception of colors and forms. The contrasts in the luminous intensity have an influence on eyes.

The incandescent effect of sunlight on the retina is well known. The shape of an enlightened object remains perceptible after one closes his eyes. The original color is converted in additional color and the shape moves with every movement of the eyes. The enlightened object is fixed in time. The effect of the memory of the retina is present not only when one looks in the sun but also with a less strong light. In fact, not perceptible, it is always present. The color of an object influences the color of another object not only if they are side by side but also in the time. One can wonder what one sees...

The perception of forms asks also questions. Perspective is an aberration of the eyes, corrected by the brain. The influence of the brain is enormous: parallel lines seem to converge in a point at the horizon. The brain corrects at once and concludes to parallel lines. Nevertheless, it is as a religion, nobody has ever seen real parallel lines. In the world of computers, one calls this effect IT (Information Technology): the perception passes at first a series of alterations, filtering and correcting the information before it reaches the consciousness. Every computer specialist knows that conversion is often accompanied with a loss of information and that the missing information is added according to a standard automatism. Straight lines, rectangles, circles: these are simplifications necessary for man to understand but which may not even exist; the too complex information gets lost during the alterations in the brain and nevertheless this limitation of forms became the only mode to think in the world managed by the computer. I wonder if this conditioning is bound to our culture stemming from classic Greece.