Light is an emotion

You think you hold it, then it moves, slips away, invents something else. That is why I work with light.

As a teenager, my bedroom was a mad scientist's lab: bulbs from cinema projectors, microscope lenses, coloured spotlights everywhere. Not always in good taste. The taste for light stayed.

I was a pattern maker in foundries, then an electrician. From those trades I kept a hand for matter and a feel for the right current. Since 2012 I have been making light pieces, for a long time under the name Luminophilie.

What inspires me fits in small moments: dew sparkling in the morning, a sunset that makes people beautiful, the colours of a stained-glass window laid on a church floor. Never a single source, always a thousand reflections.

In the studio, I daydream, I draw, I try. Some ideas arrive in a flash, others turn for months. Sometimes it does not work, so I start again. And often, the piece surprises me.

I do not make light fixtures. My pieces are not there to light a room, but to make you stop. They have to hold up in broad daylight as at night, from afar as up close.

“I feel less like someone who shapes than like someone who accompanies the light.”