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 within the session, a drawing is made live right after playing in the same state of emotion and my thoughts are spoken without hiding.
I have been on stage since I was 11 years old and expression through art 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.
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.
RAW is the closest thing I have ever made to my real self.
