The Story of the Collection

A spirit can be defined as an immaterial being, a ghost that is supposed to manifest itself on earth.

All these abstract art pictures, timeless in color or black and white, evoke these famous spirits. They are only plays of light on the surface of the water.

I made all these photos from a floating blind on the ponds of La Dombes in France. Each year, I spend 6 weeks photographing migratory birds in La Dombes. Every day, I spend several hours waiting for a heron or a duck to show up in front of me. During these long hours of waiting, I am standing in the middle of ponds surrounded by silence, light and water. I am never bored because there is always something to observe on a pond: from the simple feather left by a swan to a fleeting reflection forgotten by a low-angled light on the surface of the water.

One day, as the day was breaking over a pond, I had the sun in front of me. No birds were out yet. I put my eye in the viewfinder of my camera and saw that the surface of the water was covered with pieces of light. It was a magical sight. I felt as if spirits created by the light of the dawn were manifesting. My imagination was running wild. I saw sheets of light piling up on top of each other. I also saw a beautiful nova blazing in the pond. Other scenes evoked an esoteric language distilled by the spirits that manifested themselves before me. We are often ready to imagine anything when the morning coolness surprises us and there is nothing to do but wait.

In the end, I settled on the idea that I had spirits of light in front of me that only manifested themselves at sunrise and greeted me in the early morning.

All of these abstract art photos are totally timeless. If, like me, you have an overactive imagination, you may see another symbolism. But either way, these photos are energizing and evocative. The lights and colors will brighten up your living room or bedroom. These abstract art photos are perfectly suited to contemporary or modern settings.