Artiste pluridisciplinaire vivant à Lyon (toy photography, photographie de sites, paysages, musées, expositions, peintures, encres, dessins, écriture de romans, nouvelles et poésies). En peintures, Matisse, Combas et Dali inspirent les illusions imbriquées. Le concept zen et taoïste "Wabi-Sabi" inspire quant à lui les Lego photographies de type Star Wars. Le wabi-sabi relie deux principes (article
du Wiki) :
- "Wabi : solitude, simplicité, mélancolie, nature, tristesse, dissymétrie…
- Sabi : l'altération par le temps, la décrépitude des choses vieillissantes, la patine des objets. Le goût pour les choses vieillies, pour la salissure, etc. Le wabi fait référence à la plénitude et la modestie que l'on peut éprouver face aux phénomènes naturels, et le sabi, la sensation face aux choses dans lesquelles on peut déceler le travail du temps ou des hommes. Cette éthique apparaît au xiie siècle ; elle prône le retour à une simplicité, une sobriété paisible pouvant influencer positivement l'existence, où l'on peut reconnaître et ressentir la beauté des choses imparfaites, éphémères et modestes." Born in France, AM.i. is a Toy Photographer and painter living and working in Lyon (France, Europe). Acrylic and inks are now her preferred tools, after a period using pastels, pens and pencils. She hides multiple illusions, forms and symbols in her art. Her influences are Magritte, Robert Combas and surrealism like Salvador Dali for the hidden meanings and visual style. Matisse's simplicity and calligraphic inspiration also invite her in drawings. Concerning photography, she likes to immortalize buildings, statues, vegetations, beautiful doors and evening skies: in urban and rural areas. Museums and exhibitions are also popular themes. Toy Photography is her last playground, with Star wars Lego mini-figures, in natural or inland environment, sober simple, like "Wabi-Sabi" concept: Wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics constituting a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō), suffering (苦 ku) and emptiness or absence of self-nature (空 kū). Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.