So when I became fully aware in the Spring of 1976 of the standoff in which I found myself with my “Bowie” production, I decided then to give myself a last-ditch move : I managed to produce a mini exhibition with the help of my Parisian friends Claire, Françoise and Pierre-Marie, and with the support of the RCA’s French Division. The event took place in a small gallery on the Champs-Elysées.The walls were coated with a silver wallpaper with geometric designs, as only the 1970s dared propose. My Bowie gouaches therefore did what they could against this messy psychedelic background worthy of Paco Rabanne... However it is always with emotion and a fond smile that I watch the remnant photos of this small exhibition.

In 2003, the shooting of a promotional video for Vittel -for which my boyfriend was responsible- took place in New York City, an ad in which Bowie played the leading role. Therefore, my partner could approach the musician during a break in the shooting. This is how he could hand him my Young Americans LP's sleeve (a real treasure for me, and a vintage hardcover first edition), and also some NME and Melody Maker press articles contemporary of the record’s release, so that David Bowie could dedicate them to me. When sleeve and articles got back to me, I was astounded to see that Bowie had completely scribbled and covered his face with his signature and dedicace. Which certainly were quite friendly in meaning, yet reflecting some kind of savagery in their thuggish shape. Bowie had had every opportunity to do otherwise, to affix his signature outside the photos. But no ; what he had done, he had done it purposefully by crossing out and masking his face. I concluded that Dorian Gray was not necessarily happy to confront his past image, that of his heyday...
Indeed, it is reputedly painful for any human being to witness the ravages of time on one’s face. An elusive foe at work busy on decaying us, a merciless demolition work punctuated by the clock’s tick-tock pacing our journey on Earth, when each day gone by is a step closer to the inexorable outcome.