b o o k o f m e m o r i e s

2011-12-21T11:04:00.002+01:00

2011-12-21T11:04:00.001+01:00

2011-12-21T11:01:00.002+01:00

Scène d'un rêve fait au cours d'une nuit d'il y a une dizaine d'années.

2011-12-15T15:15:00.000+01:00

2011-12-15T15:00:00.001+01:00

Let's close the North-West passage chapter with the map of the route we did. And let's move on to something else...

2011-11-03T12:59:00.003+01:00

The Thule, or proto-Inuit, were the ancestors of all modern Inuit. Set up in Arctic coasts since 1000 years.

Peuple de Thulé, ancêtre des Inuits, dont les premières traces remontent à l'an 1000.

2011-11-03T11:16:00.005+01:00

Some drawings of our summer trip through the Nort-West Passage, sea route through the arctic ocean, first navigated by Amundsen in 1904. A book of it will be published in Editions Slatkine next spring

Aquarelles extraites du carnet de route du Passage du Nord-Ouest, traversé cet été en voilier. Un livre relatant cette expédition sera publié chez Slatkine au printemps 2012

2011-11-03T10:57:00.006+01:00

Gjoa Haven, second "big" city (1200 inhabitants) we've reached after Resolute Bay. ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ, or Uqsuqtuuq in Inuktitut, meaning "lots of fat". Obviously many people here are fat, but the names rather refers to the abundance of seals, from which Inuit people use to extracts fat.

Gjoa Haven, "grande" ville (1200 habitants) du Nunavut. ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ, ou Uqsuqtuuq en Inuktitut, ce qui signifie "beaucoup de graisse", en raison de l'abondance de phoques (dont l'Inuit tire la graisse) dans les parages. Nous y croisons par ailleurs un certains nombre de gens obèses.

2011-11-03T10:12:00.008+01:00

Unnamed isthmus in the Peel sound. (no relation but "Peel sound" reminds me John Peel, the historic BBC deejay – r.i.p. - see the link on the right).

Vue d'un morceau d'isthme sans nom dans le détroit de Peel. (Peel était-il un ancêtre de John, mythique dj de la BBC dont nous avons tous, gens de ma génération et amateurs de rock and roll, écouté les sessions? - voir le lien en annexe).

2011-10-03T14:36:00.001+02:00

First sign of human life seen since five days. The Henri Larsen Coastguard, Lancaster sound, Nunavut.

2011-10-03T14:34:00.001+02:00

Sight from the top of the sawn hill (the airfield). Greenland should be called Brownland.

2011-10-01T18:10:00.001+02:00

2011-10-01T18:07:00.001+02:00

Laurence taking a nap.

2011-10-01T18:01:00.003+02:00

This lost greenland's village (Tassissuaq) smelled death, but diggin' a bit, I found it its own charm.

2011-06-09T08:50:00.002+02:00

Jean Gabin rocks the Casbah.

2011-06-09T08:44:00.002+02:00

Who the hell designed those seats so uncomfortable?

2011-06-09T08:23:00.002+02:00

Woodblockprint for a german book collector.

2011-04-20T11:27:00.009+02:00

En rayon dans les librairies francophones. Consultez le site des Impressions Nouvelles pour plus d'Information (colonne de droite).

2011-03-30T17:16:00.008+02:00

Spring is in the air and primal colors are back.

2011-03-18T08:33:00.001+01:00

Making money with rubbish. That's how the world turns.
Kings street - St.Peter

2011-03-15T14:12:00.002+01:00

Even more elegant than the laundry is the victorian
electric substation made of bricks on the left side.
Sydney, Glebe - feb.2011

2011-03-14T00:38:00.004+01:00

Not far from the greek orthodox parish of st. Constantine and Helen.

2011-03-13T23:27:00.005+01:00

Baddish couple at the badde manor's cafe terrace.
One of the oldest café in Glebe. Established in 1982.
Sydney - feb.2011

2011-03-09T21:24:00.000+01:00

Sydney, Glebe - feb. 2011

2011-03-03T12:07:00.003+01:00

From "Breezy", a small coffee shop, I can see this batallion of dustbin.
Sydney, Glebe - feb. 2011

2011-03-02T16:30:00.001+01:00

Where is the genuine pure blonde on this image?
Well, that's the small green.
An australian beer brand.

Newtown, feb 2011

2011-01-20T23:35:00.002+01:00

I'm currently living in Calvingrad. Though it's usually a boring city, one can occasionally see some dramatic sky.
(I think I'll begin a serial about it. Thank you Kaire for the inspiration).

2010-12-31T00:14:00.000+01:00

2010-12-31T00:13:00.000+01:00

2010-11-19T14:59:00.000+01:00

On the shelf of every good bookshops, in april 2011. More news next year.

2010-11-19T14:46:00.002+01:00

Last strip of the book, on page 78, last page of the book.

2010-11-05T18:01:00.002+01:00

Village's sight from the windmills,
(which have been restored with the help
of Charles Pictet and Europsails)

2010-11-05T16:47:00.004+01:00

On the way to Patmos, after two ice coffees and some mythos,
there's nothing left to do, except sleep.

2010-06-24T14:33:00.002+02:00

2010-06-24T14:30:00.001+02:00

Ny Hellisund, an out-of-time hamlet. It seems they've recently been connected to electric power

2010-06-24T13:46:00.002+02:00

Grimstad, small norvegian town.
We slept on the boat, under the noisy medleys of a local rock band playing live in the restaurant next to the Gjesthus

2010-06-24T11:53:00.004+02:00

Welcome on board, to a short trip in Sweden and Norway. Captain Marc and his wife Sylvie sailed "Chamade", Benoît helped to work the sails and I staid discreet as much as possible, concentrating myself on observation. We've casted the anchor some miles after Göteborg; the scenery incited us to pull our watercolor box out... See the web link on the right.

9.6.2010

2010-06-22T10:27:00.001+02:00

2010-06-22T10:12:00.003+02:00

Exhibition for the SISMICS festival in Sierre.
"La Grande Alice" and three other short stories of C.F. Ramuz have been adapted into a graphic novel which will be published in 2011. Installation in the municipal cellar.

2010-03-04T16:26:00.003+01:00

Omnibus pour l'Himachal, croquis du nord de l'Inde.
Exposition du 8 mars au 1er mai

Club 44
Rue de la Serre 64
2300 La-Chaux-de-Fonds
www.club-44.ch

Ouverture les soirs de conférence ou sur demande
durant les heures de bureau
032 913 45 44

2010-01-27T17:04:00.000+01:00

2010-01-27T17:02:00.001+01:00

Kinda asian Starbucks...

2010-01-27T16:57:00.000+01:00

Part of the HK harbour

2010-01-27T16:56:00.000+01:00

A stinky lane full of dried-fish shops

2009-12-29T14:47:00.001+01:00

It seems bit gray, but the weather is bad here...

2009-12-14T00:25:00.001+01:00

Shape of the things to come.

2009-12-11T18:18:00.001+01:00

I found my colors back, by a typical geneva's sunny-windy winter day. Sight over my back yard, rue des maraîchers.

2009-12-10T11:26:00.000+01:00

Watch below for further informations

2009-11-23T20:01:00.002+01:00

Five centuries that this mosque stand with his minaret in the center of Sofia, next to a synagogue and among plenty of churches. I just wonder for what reason should we vote a law to forbid minaret's building? that's exactly what swiss people are goin'to decide next week-end and I feel it ridiculous and pitiful.

2009-11-11T16:28:00.001+01:00

Tentative to portray the beautiful bright visage of the writer.

2009-11-11T16:17:00.002+01:00

Fall of the Berlin wall. The mausoleum built in the center of Sofia to shelter the body of Giorgy Dimitrov (president of the bulgarian communist party in the 40's) was changed to public toilets in 1992.

Sofia, 1994

2009-11-11T16:14:00.000+01:00

A pair of larches (mélèzes) posing naked.

St.-Luc 1998

2009-09-30T15:53:00.002+02:00

View on the pass (2479m) and the hospice that has never been closed since year 1050. Where the pilgrim's route from Canterbury to Roma goes by.

2009-09-30T15:48:00.001+02:00

The Chanoines Réguliers in the 50's. This religious order is leading the place.

2009-09-02T11:03:00.001+02:00

Hooligan found again in an old sketchbook.

2009-09-02T10:58:00.003+02:00

And his colleague.

2009-08-05T22:11:00.003+02:00

Another sight of the Dauberhorn, drawn last week-end, the very first of august, national day here.

2009-06-21T00:54:00.002+02:00

Six books are born! Just prototypes, for sure, and in need to be improved. I'll exhibit some of the content in the biennale du carnet de voyage in Clermont-Ferrand in november 09, then in the mythical Club 44 of la Chaux-de-fonds in 2010. More informations later.

2009-06-18T14:33:00.002+02:00

I'm sweating on a hudge new stuff. Comic book, graphic novel. More information in 2-3 monthes

2009-06-18T14:03:00.001+02:00

A nice poster design made for botanical garden exhibition of 2002, unfortunately refused.

2009-05-02T21:38:00.001+02:00

In less than two weeks, I'll be in delhi again.
Some kind of rejoicing mixed with apprehension.

2009-04-23T15:32:00.002+02:00

Durban II (conference against racism) in Geneva expressed the supposed "clash of civilisation", while the 23rd International Book Fair, inviting Turkey as a special guest, reminded of the indestructible links between orient and occident.
Drawing made for the newspaper "le courrier".

2009-04-09T17:13:00.001+02:00

Despite the decrete of dictator-president Ben Ali's to ban the use of chicha (waterpipe) on the public way, some folks were keepin'on smoking on the pavement. Sousse, 1995

2009-03-14T00:06:00.004+01:00

Character created in 2001, for the Sapinrock festival. Few days ago I got a mail from a guy asking me to exhibit the festivals poster in the museum of Saxon, township which organized the event. A nice surprise!

2009-02-19T10:43:00.003+01:00

It's all in the title!
But I can add that the scene happened in a kind of haunted manor, a house out of another time, actually a heritage hotel in Matheran, Maharastra

2009-02-03T15:35:00.002+01:00

friends of drawing, mountain and gastronomy,
If by chance you go by Albinen, have a look at my mini exhibition in Godswärgjistubu. For those that cannot come so far, just ask by mail and I'll send the catalogue back.

horaires d'ouverture:
jeudi, vendredi, samedi, lundi 17h - 23h
dimanche 11h - 23h
L'Auberge se situe à 50m de l'église

2008-12-23T16:18:00.002+01:00

Okay, this was made last year, but I guess for christmas, a church is the right subject to show. And anyway I wish you all a good one

2008-12-23T16:05:00.002+01:00

That's the reason why I didn't add any new stuff for so long here. Thanks for your understanding. Anyway if you are in Bern between the 23 and 30th of january, just have a look on the exhibit.

2008-10-03T14:17:00.003+02:00

Today's financial crisis remind me this of 1992. As jobless, I had to work with some other unfortunate fellows on a building site. It was a great fun, quite exhausting. There's no silly job. This one was a real one, if you compare with which is made by all those fucking clowns of wall street.

2008-05-06T12:50:00.002+02:00

Quite a magic place, to eat, drink, discuss and spend hours. There you'll feel Wallis exactly how it always should be: traditionally rooted, open to the other, culturally mixed, close to real values. It would be nothing without the owner, Sacha and Hannelore, whom are making it unique. Adress is on the link list.

2008-05-01T12:00:00.002+02:00

Mom read "le Monde Diplomatique", Dad "die Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and for the lil'girl, there is "Life Star". These readings tell a lot about this little family, skirted in the Geneva-Sierre train, an evening of april.

2008-04-30T17:44:00.002+02:00

"Then one day I could tell my tracks
by the holes in the soles of my shoes
And that’s the day I said
I’m gonna make the news
and falling back in the garden of days so long ago"
Joe Strummer

2008-04-05T15:51:00.006+02:00

Me if I was a Turk. Self-portrait I did 14 years ago. I exhume all those old stuff, notes and sketches, motivated as never to make a book of this long travel which lead me in Syria in 1994.

2008-04-05T15:37:00.002+02:00

Special edition: here comes the unique image I didn't draw myself. Wazem made it last thursday, in the beginning of a ride trough geneva's nightlife. Final result was a hudge headache. Friday morning, mine looks like the background of the illustration. Waterfalls and rocks noise rumbling in my head. It was a great pleasure to meet pierre again, after almost 10 years.

2008-03-25T18:01:00.002+01:00

the show was really scratchy, but as this krush only showed his cap, I kept reather this after-instant. An unknow girl, Mass of Samaël on stage, and balthazar (lil'mofo) cleaning the place with a shovel and a bad mood

2008-03-14T21:45:00.002+01:00

J'ai toujours été charmé par les pins, toutes espèces confondues. Ce pin noir d'autriche, dans une cour à l'arrière de la Schüsspromenade, en plein centre de Bienne, est particulièrement majestueux. J'écris ces deux derniers messages dans les languages régionaux, exceptionnellement, en hommage au bilinguisme de cette ville étonnante.

2008-03-14T21:32:00.002+01:00

Heute Morgen musste ich in die Schule gehen. Trotzdem habe ich Biel erreicht, hatte absolut kein Lust für lernen in eine Klassraum. Ich dachte an Robert Walser, es war ein Tag für bummeln... und zeichnen.

2008-03-12T20:10:00.003+01:00

Sir Edmund Hillary with his faithful sherpa and friend Tensing at camp in Thyangboche, Nepal. Those two fellows were the very first men to reach the top of Everest, in 1953. Hillary died at the age of 89, last january. Called "The Quintessential Kiwi" (as new-zealander), he was humble,honnest and hard-worker. A great man.

2008-03-12T20:09:00.002+01:00

We were between Chennai and Salem. Everybody was reading and we missed our stop. funny, "riders in the train" sounds like "riders on the storm" of jim morrisson, but it was actually a burning day without an ounce of wind.

2008-02-22T22:09:00.003+01:00

Lunch in Aurelec: cheap and healthy food ad libitum, surrounded with a so varied homo fauna, under the soothing shade of this secular jackfruit tree. I've spent unique moments there. If you want to know more about the place and about India generally, please check what my precious friend seena write on her motherland: hummingleaves.blogspot.com
Richer than any travel guide. Link is on the right column.

2008-02-22T21:58:00.004+01:00

welcome back everybody!
some brand new stuff from my recent visit of india (or should I rather say of auroville, as this "town" doesn't really belong to gandhi's country). Greenery and cool air, good vibes and amazing architectures.
Official website of auroville is added on the "links" column.

2007-12-29T10:53:00.000+01:00

A sight on the Tschigeren's roofs. Oswald Ruppen, Edouard Vallet or Edmond Bille fixed it long before me.

2007-12-28T19:58:00.000+01:00

Late autumn landscape, it is yet white everywhere. I'll begin a serie soon, mountains attract me like a magnet.

2007-12-18T12:07:00.001+01:00

This is the first part of a triptych which was actually made for a contest of IdN, famous graphic design magazine from Hong-Kong. Though no award was given, I've put lot of energy and pleasure in this task.

2007-12-04T18:16:00.000+01:00

Congratulations! My cousin and his wife got a baby. I've searched inspiration in origami to prepare them that announcement (as they recently came back from a japan trip with glittering eyes). Though job which makes me sweat like anything!!!

2007-11-28T16:28:00.000+01:00

It is so rare to make an illustration and be paid for it! This one is about e-learning, one of a serie of drawings I did for a newsletter published by HES (swiss specialized high schools).

2007-11-27T09:05:00.000+01:00

It's tough to sum up this last week-end in clermont-ferrand. Many new contacts and good ideas have been shared and I hope it will give birth to concrete stuff. Despite the french strike of railway network I've reached the place and came back home by sharing-car, without any trouble. It was really nice. I hope to be there next year.

2007-10-31T10:28:00.000+01:00

Im happy to introduce (after a long work) the Beret Noir / Songkor nasional project. For further informations, try the link beside, or type the adress below: http://beretnoir.blogspot.com

2007-10-09T23:13:00.000+02:00

it seems irksome today to watch an old black and white movie, should some times to be trapped. This "Scandal" of Kurosawa was just excellent. I wont tell it there, check it on the link added beside.

2007-09-26T16:15:00.000+02:00

I got the confirmation for my participation to the 8th "biennale du carnet de voyage" in Clermont-Ferrand (France).
There'll be 6 m2 to hang works and show sketchbooks fac-simile.
This drawing above was one my first travelsketch: "Heraklion", a greek Ferry, who finally drove me in Auvergne, almost 15 years after we left the harbour!!

2007-09-06T12:03:00.000+02:00

This watercolor is a "cover" of one of my brother chris pictures. He shot some pics which deserve to be published in a national geographic issue. For more asian sights, check the link I've added on the right (http://topsolete.smugmug.com).

2007-09-04T12:03:00.000+02:00

Himalayan pine trees, prayer's flags, momos and clear soups, temple built around trees. While some place's in the world are corners for conflicts, how not to be touched by such piece of peaceful elsewhere?

2007-09-04T11:48:00.000+02:00

An evening prayer in the mac leod ganj temple. Wherever you are in the village you can hear the mantra's chants, like a strange resounding buzzing.

2007-08-26T23:19:00.000+02:00

When you'll reach Chonor's house, some sleeping dogs will welcome you. It has been very difficult to leave this place which became like a home. Kindness of people, beauty of decors. This painting I reproduced above particularly moved me. The surreal atmosphere reminds me a Giorgio de Chirico's piece. The guesthouse belongs to the norbulingka institute: just check the link for further informations.

MacLeod Ganj
08.2007

2007-08-02T13:37:00.000+02:00

Sorry sorry it has been a long time without new thing here, but... This is a glimpse of Ooty, a charming Hill station in Tamil Nadu. Soon some new indian illustrations will be added. For now I'm in Mumbay, but no scanner is available.

2007-05-28T19:48:00.000+02:00

2007-05-15T10:42:00.000+02:00

Lets go the big country today. Land of extremes, land of bipolarity... This house is situated in the Hamptons (Staten Island - NY)?

2007-03-12T13:49:00.000+01:00

A sunday 5 o'clock panorama. Just behind that mountain, Iggy & the Stooges gave a great gig on thursday.

2007-02-12T15:53:00.000+01:00

Walking on the BLS sud rampe I draw that sight last sunday; well-named day, weather was sooo nice (notice im back in helvetia).

2007-02-10T18:47:00.000+01:00

one more keralite atmosphere just before leaving to chennai and go back to my egoistic motherland.