The Abstractions series was born following my collaboration with the United Nations which was a decisive moment in my career. Indeed, I chose at that time to turn to the elaboration of theories, but also to the implementation of educational material.

From this came a visual language, whose alphabet, if you can call it that, is part of the collaboration I mentioned earlier.

The term Abstraction, therefore, refers to several things for me:

- The nature of the abstract language because it does not use words, only colors and shapes (spiral, circle, square, torus, etc);

- But also to the experiences I represent, in a metaphorical way.

I represented states of consciousness in my first artworks (Bardo, Agony, Heart in Warfare,…). As I was able to do before in a more figurative way through my collages. Sometimes, I even chose to illustrates ancient African mythologies (Chineke)

I wanted to imagine moments of human life, which sometimes we do not remember:

- The fertilization of an ovum.

- The awareness of our being, the moment when our ego is fully formed and apprehended.

I think I'm one of the few humans who remember their birth. I remember choosing to land in the family where I was born. I also remember my first cry, the commotion in the delivery room, the clinking of the surgical metal, and the glaring lights that shone the blood through my closed eyelids. It is an important memory for me, it acts as a landmark for me. As much as the North Star was for the ancient sailors.

It also helps me to understand time better, as a flow, a phenomenon necessary to my experience of life, but also of death. This is where my inspiration for the image I titled Imagination came from.