1. Contemporary Abstraction as a Spiritual Path

My work is part of a subrealist abstraction, where the deconstruction of Van Gogh's forms becomes a vehicle for exploring the Three Paths of Mahayana:

- Vision (initial awakening, right perception)

- Meditation (contemplative deepening)

- The path of the arhat (ultimate liberation).

By transposing these stages into an abstract expressionist movement, I create a visual allegory of the spiritual process, where the fragmentation of colors and textures evokes the dissolution of illusions (māyā). The dominance of xanthopsia yellows (a reference to Van Gogh's visual disturbances) symbolizes both suffering and enlightenment, embodying the Buddhist duality between samsara (the cycle of rebirth) and nirvana (liberation).

2. Technical Hybridity: A Slow Digital Ritual Against Immediacy

My hybrid method—photographed acrylic, hand-cut tracing paper, and stop-motion animation—is a metaphor for the Three Paths:

- The physical (the canvas): Anchoring in matter, like traditional meditative practice.

- The digital (animation): Transcendence, the immateriality of the dharma.

By resisting digital immediacy through a slow, ritualized process, I reverse the logic of scroll culture to create a contemplative practice, reminiscent of Buddhist thangkas (meditative paintings) reinterpreted for the digital age.

3. "Xanthopsia": Yellow Perception as Digital Theology

The Xanthopsia collection pushes Van Gogh's perceptual distortion further:

- Yellow is no longer simply a pathological color (as in the theory of foxglove poisoning), but a spiritual filter, a modern yantra where light hides darkness, and vice versa.

- Digital overprints create visual palimpsests, evoking the interlocking worlds of Buddhism (the six realms of samsara).

My reinterpretation of The Flower Garden thus becomes a karmic map: each animated petal represents a being in transition, between desire (trishna) and awakening (bodhi).

Conclusion: Art as a Contemporary Vehicle (yana)

My piece "Vision" does not simply reinterpret Van Gogh: it transforms him into a visual sutra, where each digital brushstroke is a mantra, each layer a realm of existence. By merging Mahayana, subrealism, and digital hybridity, I create a liturgical art for the post-internet era—an active meditation on perception, suffering, and possible liberation through images.

Tribute to Van Gogh : «  Blumengarten »

Original at : private collection

2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 5 fps / 1/1 édition

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