News and Views
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I feel caught in a great net. An invisible net. A net that surrounds us all and prevents us from thinking freely. We can’t see it, but its shadow clouds our minds. This net is sexism, ordinary sexism. Men and women alike, we all grow up with stereotypes. They are inoculated into us by our…
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A friend recently asked me what the martial arts bring me most. I think that, speaking of aikido, what regular practice brings me most is connection with others. This may seem paradoxical from the outside, since, as in many other martial arts, what we observe is a strike, an attack and a defense, immobilization or…
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As 2023 draws to a close, I’d like to share with you the childlike joy I had watching the cranes on the Notre-Dame reconstruction site. They rise so high. They look so light from the ground. They seem to want to touch the monument with their fingertips, so as not to disrespect it. The cathedral…
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When I look at a commercial port, … I put on my sailor’s glasses and … imagine the relief at the bottom of the water. I ask myself where the tide is and whether the ships are light or full. I measure the mass of water filling the basin. I wonder which dock is deep…
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Last week was All Saints’ Day. You wouldn’t think so, at the rate we live, the rate we learn, the rate we work. I hope you were able to take a break. I’m thinking of you who’s no longer here. I think of you who suffer from his or her absence. Please take care of…
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Am I afraid that creative AI might make my job disappear ? Yes and no, actually. Yes, because the number of customers who will turn to AIs for their ease of use will grow, and we can therefore fear that the market for “human” illustration will shrink. Many of these customers already don’t use an…
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Hello ! The site was launched a month ago. I’ve started circulating the link to potential customers and I’m wisely waiting for replies. In the meantime, I’m continuing to paint, most recently with this portrait. This is Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. He is the great master of our martial art, known as O-Sensei…
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Hello ! After a few months of producing illustrations in order to create the beginnings of a portfolio, I’ve finally got round to creating the website. While uploading the images to illustrate my bio, I realized that I didn’t like the one I’d done for Singapore (I spent a year at the university in Singapore…