“I am of a generation whose aim has been to overcome ‘negritude,’ to make cultural diversity an asset. My pictorial production can only be understood as a reaction to these issues, it is these questions themselves that gave my work the dynamics implicit in its style as an attempt to answer these questions.”
“My painting is about the paradox of trying to accept all the cultures that I am composed of, without ever trying to forge a single entity. If I had to condense my research into a formula, I would say that I try to see things in multiple ways. This is why, incidentally, my paintings are always moving. They are an attempt to bring into play, in the vacillation of the materials, the idea of a movable joint, a sensual play with color.
I would like my paintings to convey the idea that, despite that which limits our identities, there is the presence, in each of us, of an anonymous and underlying life that moves in the depths and that seeks to manifest itself.”