It's been a long time since I last posted an article on this blog. Here we are back with swanns, this damn bird that pinched me in Geneva's lake when I was a child. Years passed. I finally became wise (joke) and got to make paintings and drawings to honour this animal with such a bad temper, but so elegant also...until it goes out of the water and starts walking in a clumsy way making it looks like the animal version of Charlie Chaplin. That's why the swanns I painted are in the water, : to preserve their dignity. I didn't want to humiliate them painting or drawing them while they are walking. Maybe if another bad tempered swann is going to pinch me again I'll change my mind and I'll paint a whole serie of walking swanns. Maybe it's just a cold war waiting to get warm again, between swanns and me.
