“In my paintings, the drawing was very present, but it was hidden or disappeared. I did several paintings in one painting and I could fight for months with a face that appeared, then which I destroyed… Painting offers this power of immediate destruction, you cover everything, at once. Drawing is, on the contrary, a way of retaining everything, retaining these different portraits, for example. In a painting, there are lots of paintings, all these stages that we lose and that we find again. And in fact, what interests me the most is this work of research and then loss of the image. Painting is a struggle that brings a lot of frustration in this quest for an image that appears, then disappears. I had written on the wall of my studio “the image is the impossibility of…”