Cycle 1 – Organs – Axis

With this drawing, I first sought to represent what I felt during inflammatory crises affecting my spine.

The spine is a central axis, an essential passageway: it carries all nervous information, like a station through which messages are sent to the brain.

When the entire spine becomes inflamed, pain does not remain localized. It turns into an inner fire, spreading, gradually invading the whole body.

This drawing was born from that sensation.

It attempts to translate this internal burning, this painful circulation, this loss of boundaries between a precise point and the body as a whole.

As I progressed along the spine, the drawing evolved.

Each vertebra began to resonate differently, according to what it is connected to.

The cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae do not tell the same story; they do not dialogue with the same territories of the body.

In a state of mindfulness, I felt the vertebrae connected to the rib cage, linked to breathing — inhale, exhale — a vital rhythm.

Others, connected to the reproductive system, brought me back to a more intimate, deeply feminine dimension.

As the central organ of our skeleton, the spine becomes far more than a support structure.
In a meditative state, it acts as an anchor, an axis of presence.

Here, pain paradoxically opens a path toward the present moment.

A return to the body.

Here and now.