My work is part of a movement of subrealist reactivation of artistic heritage, where subrealism is defined not as a style, but as an operational method: it involves subtracting visible reality to reveal the underlying layers—temporal, digital, and memorial. "The Postman's Postcard" is not a simple reproduction or reinterpretation; it is a processual metamorphosis that operates on multiple levels.

1. Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Myth: The Postman as Meta-Subject

My unconventional homage to Van Gogh transcends the pictorial motif to address its semantic ecosystem. Postman Roulin is no longer simply a portrait; he becomes the archetype of circulation.

- The Paradox of the Time Loop: My central philosophical concept—receiving a postcard—is a mise en abyme of its own function. It transforms the postman, traditionally a passive vector of a message, into both the sender and recipient of his own narrative. This creates an existential feedback loop where work (the act of delivering) and identity (being the postman) merge. It is a powerful allegory of the artist in the digital age: he produces a work (the postcard) which, by circulating (in the physical world, on the blockchain), ends up redefining and nourishing his own myth and creative function.

- The Prequel as Retroactive Genesis: By making this piece a "prequel" to "the postman's drop by drop," I establish a dialectic of flow. If "drop by drop" evoked the liquid and continuous data of the blockchain, "the postcard" represents its original atom, the discrete and tangible unit of information. This reversed temporal relationship questions the notion of genesis: origin is not a fixed point, but a constructed and replayed narrative, just like value and authenticity in the context of NFTs and digital memory.

2. Xanthopsia: An Epistemology of Altered Perception

The title of the collection is not insignificant. Xanthopsia, or yellowish vision, often associated with Van Gogh's experience, is here elevated to the rank of a philosophical and aesthetic principle.

- Chromatic Utopia: Yellow is not a simple color; it is a cognitive filter. It represents the alchemical capacity to transform anxiety (the "dark moments") into creative and positive energy. My work does not deny darkness; it offers an alternative perception to coexist with it. This directly echoes Van Gogh's harmonic tension, where the turbulence of brushstrokes and the intensity of contrasts always seek a dynamic balance, a form of beauty born of struggle.

- Duality and Coexistence: My work physically embodies this duality. The photographed acrylic canvas represents the anchored, the tangible, the historical—the legacy of painting. The animated digital painting represents the flux, the immaterial, the contemporary—the becoming of the image. They do not simply overlap; they coexist and interact within the same compositional plane, creating a hybridity that is the very language of our time.

3. A Hybrid Aesthetic at the Heart of the Digital Subculture

My technique is the vehicle for this concept. It deliberately places the work within the landscape of today's digital and artistic subculture.

- Stop-Motion and Digital Painting: Archaeology of Process: Step-by-step photography and minimalist animation serve not only to document. They exhibit the work of time. Each image is a palimpsest, an archaeological layer of creation. Simulating the "organic flow of time" through digital painting is a profoundly conceptual act: I reveal the invisible (the passing of time, the artist's hand at work) by materializing it through abstract movement. It is a postcard of the creative process itself.

- "Rereading" as Active Mediation: My approach not only enriches our understanding of Van Gogh; it renews our mode of engagement with classical art. It does not propose passive contemplation, but an active meditative experience, where the viewer is invited to decipher the back-and-forth between the physical and the digital, between the still and the animated, between 1888 and the present day. This work functions as a semantic bridge, demonstrating that modern techniques (digital animation, tokenization) are not gimmicks, but powerful tools for reactivating dialogue with the masters of the past.

Conclusion: Heritage as Data to be Reworked

"The Postman's Postcard" and the "Xanthopsia" collection offer a vision in which artistic heritage is living data, information that circulates, transforms, and generates new meaning with each iteration. My work is a profound contemplation of how we receive, we interpret and reflect the images that form the basis of our culture. By making the postman Roulin the subject and object of his own postcard, I attempt to create a metaphor for the contemporary artist: a node in the network, constantly emitting and receiving, deconstructing and reconstructing, to ultimately deliver, drop by drop, a new vision of the world.

The Postman's Postcard: Xanthopsia 159:

Original at : Detroit Institute of Arts

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