While visiting my family and friends in France and Belgium, I was always attracted by the windows and beaten-up shutters of the medieval streets. They represented a confined life, structured, and carefully controlled. I could hear and imagine sounds, murmurs, conversations, and laughs behind the openings of the house.

In opposition to my windows, I then became attracted to wild animals. Generating my dream of an escape, the power of nature invaded my soul with peacefulness and total freedom. Nature slowly became an important part of my work: fruits, vegetables, flowers and mostly expressions of life.