I started working on a series of original pictures gathered together under the sole title of "Clair de lune" at a time when I was deeply immersed in the music of the French composer Claude Debussy. One of the composer's most popular piano pieces, "Clair de Lune" was inspired by the following poem by Paul verlaine:

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Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masquerades and dancers are promenading,
Playing the lute and dancing, and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

While singing in a minor key
Of victorious love, and the pleasant life
They seem not to believe in their own happiness
And their song blends with the moonlight,

With the sad and beautiful moonlight,
Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming,
And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy,
The slender water streams among the marble statues.

(Translated by Norman Shapiro, 1998)

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Those pictures can be described as "nocturnal variations" or "scenes of life lit by the full moon". They were all designed in the same format (127x178) and consist of several layers of cut-out paper superimposed in a frame and lit-up from backward. When displayed together, the common format and the recurrence of certain themes create a sense of drama while still allowing the viewer to try to figure out the story behind each picture by the means of his own intuition.

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