Consequently and bit by bit, "star" characters of the 1950s and 1960s that so strongly impregnated my dreams and adolescence's memories landed in my own Orly world, from both shores of the Atlantic -because that is where the myths were born, in those times.

The characters without identity, dismissed by a fate that escaped them (a metaphor for the Glorious Thirty's glazing) thus gave way to those who had made the brilliance of the time, and who expressed its essence.

When I undertook my research for this second Orly (South) series, the editorial choice of the personalities, artists, actors or singers that would appear in my paintings was neither objective, nor calculated. It obeyed to one only criterion, that of the emotions related to my childhood memories.

These very personal markers gave me all freedom to bring together among others Jean Marais and Diana Rigg, Patrick McGoohan and Jacques Brel, Steve McQueen and Gilbert Bécaud, Miles Davis and Shirley Horn, Faye Dunaway and Juliette Gréco, consummate artists that the projector flooded with its light when Orly's South Wing was France's most celebrated place.

Orly, a magical place that brought together cinema, music and architecture, merging these three passions of mine in the ultimate paintings of my last Orly (South) series to date.