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P.H.U.S.S. - Portraits des Habitants d'Univers Sonores Synesthésiques
(Portraits of the Inhabitants of Synesthesic Sonic Worlds)

I'm not a true synesthete, but as a child, I used to bury myself into a song, close my eyes, and travel the worlds instantly emerging from the music. Once, I could even taste a sound. But then, growing up, I didn't do it anymore.
Lately, I read something about synesthesia, and remembered that infinitesimal synesthetic drop I had in my blood. I was then working on large drawings, and needed to create something smaller, quicker, funnier and freer. Something like a happy phuss out of nothing.

The process:
- I close my eyes and listen to a sound until I've immersed myself in it.
- I get subtle features of the world emerging from that sound: colours, vague feel, blurred landscapes, etc.
- I let the first thing living in this world come to my mind. Then I sketch it without cheating: no matter if it's ricidulous, ugly or doesn't make sense. I struggle not to create or imagine it, and try to get the first clear image and stick to that.

The rest is history (a history made of pens, brushes, sponges, sumi, scanners and digital magic).
19 sounds and counting...