The raw series
RAW?
Creating is a need, a visceral one and the deepest certainty I have. My video serie "RAW" goes against the current superficial immaterial direction the digital world often takes and refuses perfection. It lives in risk, in immediacy, in vulnerability. I enter the studio, setup my camera, and I create music in real time. In that same emotional state, I share self-reflective thoughts, and draw the cover artwork.
Each episode becomes the document of a real inner moment: a song, a drawing, and a vulnerable process captured as it is. The songs are often born in one take, a drawing is made live right after playing in the same state of emotion and my thoughts are spoken without hiding.
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I have been on stage since I was 11 years old and Improvisation has shaped my whole life as a musician, and jazz taught me early that everyone, whatever their level, is allowed to have a voice. But at some point, art became the place where I tried to prove my value. RAW was born when I chose to reverse that. Now, art is the place where I return to myself. I don’t want to hide behind a controlled, safe version of me as an artist. I don’t want to share a polished story. I want to share the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
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After going through two major depressive episodes as a child and teenager, I can say clearly that if art had not existed for me, I wouldn’t be here today. The RAW Series is a healing practice a tool to access feeling, to survive, to transform, to come closer to ourselves. If sharing this process can inspire others to create, then the project has already done something meaningful.
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RAW is the closest thing I have ever made to my real self.
