"Source and Mountain," acrylic paint, paint marker, pigment on canvas.

The title of this work is inspired by a text by the Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet.

During my hikes in the magnificent Swiss Alps, I have always been drawn to the many springs that gush from the rocks. The sound of a spring is sublime, as are its taste and freshness.

This canvas constructs its meaning around a fundamental opposition between two chromatic and gestural registers.

The title "Source and Mountain" expresses a relationship: that between the origin (fluid, warm, unstable) and the culmination or elevation (structured, cold, enduring). It is a meditation on the water cycle, the spring that originates at the foot of the mountain, or that flows down from its summit, but also a broader metaphor for genesis: how something chaotic and organic eventually crystallizes into a stable geometric form, or conversely, how rigor engenders excess.

The red frame, by isolating this point of passage, invites the gaze to linger where the two worlds touch, as if the work were pointing out: here is the place where the spring becomes a mountain, or the mountain becomes a spring again.