Every time I look back at my paintings, the beginning changes.
There are works I only understand after having made others.
Some seemed finished and, over
time, opened questions I could not yet see.
This is why I do not think of my research as a succession of works.
I think of passages.
Each painting modifies those that precede it.
Each new work changes the way I read the body, space, colour and form.
Words always come later.
They do not explain the paintings.
They allow me to recognise relationships that painting had already built.
Time is not external to the work.
It is part of its structure.
For a long time, the body was where the research began.
Then space.
Then colour.
Not as new themes, but as new relations.
Between works there are intervals I cannot fill with intention.
Those intervals are not empty.
Those intervals are where another relation begins to emerge.
Research does not exist inside a painting.
It exists in the passage between paintings.
Looking back, I realised that the work was never contained within a single image.
It emerged through the movement from one painting to another.
The studio is not where I produce answers.
It is where I learn to recognise the questions I did not know I was carrying.
The research remains in motion.
Every painting leaves the next one unfinished.