cadmium red

This is it. This is it . The project I've been talking about for a while is finally unveiling to you. The video I uploaded is the beginning of a long series of artistic videos. Therefore, you will not read the story all at once but gradually just like a book. I've been dying to write this post and now that I am in front of my notebook, words are weirdly hard to find. I don't really know what to say because I can't wrap my head around the fact that this is it . All I know is that I put all my heart in it and you are finally going to see it. Everything. Every week, you will see a part of a life that is or once was. One thing If there is one thing that I need, it is to make sure that you feel the emotions I want you to feel when watching my work I need you to share your thoughts about these videos or about yourself. Share your emotions and sensations. Share the way my work resonates with you, the way it affects you if it does. Share wha...

Art is an elevation for the ones who see the most exquisite everywhere. I often find myself travelling to the most exotic lands where the fruits have the sweetest juice and the most delightful taste. The lands are fertile enough to grow the flowers flowers that smell like a fiery passion The reds, the golds and the pinks are so vivid, it is as if they are bursting out of the dark (out of the dark jungle) in order to flourish and I only have eyes for them. Art is an elevation. As he said, Even out of dirt, we'll make gold. And that's exactly how it is. -I am sincerely thankful that Art elevates me too.- Love, Cadmium Red (M) xx

At times, my mind gets lost in the ocean of my hair, "Bite into them and you'll remember everything". MOTHER, The element of water is the third part of the series. Love, Cadmium Red (M) xx

When I looked carefully, I could see the roots I grew up from. They leaded to the plants and flowers I never expected to bloom so passionately -the jungle I created is a detailed and wild masterpiece- I painted this, before, years ago, when I felt stuck and scared of my own and couldn't bear the fact that : My head is a jungle Now, there is no place I would rather be than in my own body, mind or soul. I'm glad I found my way back although I had tried to hide it so thoroughly. "The plants I draw always have roots because I don't want to deny what they've been through anymore." MOTHER, Mother Nature is the second part of the series. Love, Cadmium Red (M) xx

I saw myself grounded onto Earth, lying on the hard ground. I saw the burning colour, spreading out of my chest like a wildfire. Alive, I am painting with so much passion and lust that  I am burning red I feel it here, I feel it now, shivers down my spine, goosebumps on my arms, heavy breath, adrenaline, lust and inspiration it's like thinking about the moment just before a touch, a connection, an embrace after the desperate need to be close to myself,  Roots are growing out of my body and bury into the ground. Look Love, Cadmium Red (M) xx

WILDFIRE I found it one day, Caught into a vision, visualization of the whole, yet Sometimes I hide things, and then I forget where they are.  Maybe I don’t hide them, but I lose sight of them anyway. Do you know how it is to be true? Oh I forgot, I forget, I don’t know. But why, oh why did it so vividly appear, So intensely clear Yet so suddenly disappeared I thought I had it on hold and oh my, I wish you knew how beautiful it was. It was my very best achievement. Since the new breath I’ve taken, I felt the urge to paint with the heart, the need to paint with my soul. I tried to picture the burning colour, spreading out of my chest like a Wildfire. I wish it was not only a memory, not only a vision, but then I feel it again, only when I'm painting, only when I'm alive. And here I found it again. Love, Cadmium red (M) xx

I thought about how I craved feelings, impressions, real intuitions. This is the first time I drew something. Spring 2015. Vibrant colours I found in me, revigorate the broken, clean the soul. I remember discovering art for the first time while it was dark outside, I grabbed that light blue sketchbook and began to draw. I didn't know what I was doing, I knew what I was doing so well. It was like a long night drive. a way of healing wounds. And I followed it ever since then. I could feel the faint smell of the pastels and the burning too.                           This                                       is                                             my most precious work,      ...

This is a paper collage made of cut out magazines and dried orchid. I made it a while ago but I just found the video I made for it and forgot to post so that's why! However, looking back at the original post I published, I realised that I haven't talked about it at all, so here is the story behind this piece :) Do you feel disoriented too? Don’t you feel the same motion sickness of the mirage that happened? I did, it was beautiful but I almost fell. A very exotic mirage. She was mysterious and dazzling... Like an orchid.  I drew this reflection of the woman on her left, representing a sort of ethereal apparition. Through it all, I wanted to express the lightness of a dream, the ephemeral movement like an enchanting vision. The different purple tones are revealing purity, a lightness that I only remembered as being in my dreams.  Soir de Lune is a work that I made in order to tell a sweet dreamlike escape.

Nouveau souffle (New breath) Nouveau souffle Près de la mer, je regarde ma propre réflexion, En moi, je sens que l’air froid, Que je m’apprête à inspirer, est le nouveau souffle que porte le mot « liberté ». New breath By the sea, I am looking at my own reflection, Under my skin, right within me, I know the cold air I’m about to inhale, Is the new breath carried by the word “freedom”. Inspiration This is a watercolour painting I did on paper a while ago. Looking at it now, I just made this little poem that I thought would go with it. "Le nouveau souffle" is a french expression that for me symbolizes the feeling of freedom, refreshment and life after a new start. To give a new breath to something is to give it life again. Process I did the watercolour painting with light and neutral colours, my aim was to convey a sensation of freedom, of freshness and lightness. The painting had to be related with the sea and the cold wind which is...

So that's a quick little drawing that I made a few days ago entitled "soft feelings". It's about starting the new year with a head full of dreams, a heart full of love and happiness. I wanted to make a chill video that I can watch back to remember how it felt. Tell me what you think about it, I would love to know! Thank you ever so much for the ones who read my blog posts or watch my videos, it means so much to me! I do not own the music of this video. Music : a l e x - sleep next to me Love, M xx

 Here's a paper collage that I made... Love, M xx

July 14th              -              20 : 17pm            - a journal entry – I have just finished this painting that I had in mind last night. [Strokes] This painting is very special for two reasons : the first one is that it came out to me stroke by stroke - I didn’t know exactly where I was going with this painting but slowly - little by little- it revealed itself under the natural light of my window. And I saw what the big picture was going to be. The second reason is that I have never thought of painting something like that before, it just happened and when I finished it, I just stood there, in front of it - with questioning eyes and a wordless mouth. That painting is certainly something I’ve never felt before which I think is why it looks so different from what I’m used t...

Love, Cadmium red (M) xx

WORK CREATE. WORK CREATE. WORK CREATE. Since school has started, this is what my days have been like ! I find it really hard to create with all the homeworks we have, all the exams, walking to the underground to get home, taking the underground, taking the the bus then driving home and blablablah... I'm struggling to find the time to create, to experiment some new techniques, to write new posts weekly. But I feel so grateful that I'm inspired that creating has become a way for me to show that I'm thankful and that I'm taking care of myself as well. I feel so happy that I still create and the more I create, the happier I feel ! If you're in this situation, if you feel like you don't have time to do what you want to do, please find time for yourself even though it's so hard, it's so important. So, I just wanted to share with you an overview of what I have made this weekend, some experimentations and work in progress that I've done! :) //PO...

Ecume sur mes souvenirs -french for seafoam on my memories- These are a series of three artworks I made especially for Halcyon Girls’ second issue as Maddie kindly gave me the opportunity to be featured in it!  I’ve met Maddie this summer and she's now one of my closest friend, I mentioned her on my previous post ( here ). Her second issue Aquamarine has just came out, you should definitely check it out ( here ). I feel so honoured to be featured in her issue and I can’t thank her enough for sharing my art! Two days after she offered me to be featured in the mag, this is what I created…   écume sur mes souvenirs (no.1), by Cadmium red (M), oil painting on canvas, 65x50cm. écume sur mes souvenirs (no.2), by Cadmium red (M), pastel drawing on paper, 65x50cm   écume sur mes souvenirs (no.3), by Cadmium red (M), watercolour on paper, 65x50cm INSPIRATION I really liked the theme of this issue because it allowed me to be really creativ...