Remerciements

“One of the things I enjoyed the most about last week’s retreat is that experimentation was not just embraced, but encouraged.
Of course, we had canonically beautiful still lives set up as a styling exercise. But there was also plenty of free styling going on, each of us building scenes according to our taste, level, whim, vision. And it was crazy, and mind blowing, and different. Nothing looked like plagiarism or mimicking. It was “creation” the way it looks when it’s freed from the self-consciousness we fall into when it comes to expose ourselves on this arena — when it comes to been “liked”. And it was awesome to witness.

Among many, I was particularly entranced by Elodie’s @madame_love creative process. Her arrangements, composed using what was naturally available in January in the fields of Provence — not much, really — pushed the boundaries of traditional beauty. Yet to me they were so movingly beautiful precisely because they were so unlike anything I’d seen before...Seeing her creating them was thrilling, as though a spell were cast before my eyes. This ikebana-like composition, for one — so fragile and yet so powerful — stole my heart.”