My path to Brasilia took time. A time frame marked by setbacks -gone to oblivion-, and by highlights -exhilarating ; a long-term trip, which had a happy outcome thanks to the indispensable supports that overcame the series of obstacle that such an enterprise invevitably encounters. Namely, the use of a language which was foreign to me, and the distance from a country the capital of which had become an architectural myth -and therefore was untouchable, and sacred as such-, being furthermore separated from France by nearly height thousand miles of ocean and land, and several decades of history and culture specific to the Brazilian people.

Therefore, when I started to take an interest in Orly Airport's South Wing in 2003, I certainly did not expect my path to be easy, when compared to my Brasilia's endeavour (none efforts ever were anyway, whatever the explored theme in my painting was) ; however, at no time would I have imagined that it could turn out to be more tortuous and difficult than the path that had led me to Brasilia. Nor that a pictorial work dedicated to a place belonging to my own country’s heritage, located less than thirty kilometers from my place of life and work, could meet on its road blockages and traffic jams worthy of the legendary automobile transhumance which congested the infamous "Nationale 7" high road at each summer vacation during the Glorious Thirty boom -an axis that Orly Airport’s Southern Wing continues to span over today, under a different name.
Some unexpected and sometimes unwarranted difficulties were met in the project of exhibiting my Orly (Sud) paintings on the South Wing’s walls. This had been my original goal and my dream, a twin dream of that which Brasilia had fulfilled in 2010 by exhibiting the paintings that celebrated the city. These uncalled resistances’ pettiness that cropped up on my way, urge me today to give credit where credit is due, by greeting those who supported my work, and allowed that it could exist in the public eye.  These supports’ scarcity making them all the more esteemed and dear to my heart.