Yves creates from a place of knowingness. A remembering that happens when one recognizes themselves in all things. Working in the mediums of painting and sculpture, untouched by art school doctrine, free and with no self-imposed limitations, Yves lays down the image as if channeling from the universal mind of the eternal now.

Often sketching directly on the canvas and then highlighting specific details with fast and unplanned brush strokes, Yves brings the figure to the surface as though it had always been there, hovering in the ether.

The figures stand in stoic stillness or are depicted in moments charged with intent, the limbs at times dematerializing into the canvas. Many are faceless, inviting the viewer to superimpose themselves onto the image and in the process become one with it.

Using the impermanence of charcoal, representing the temporal aspect of the human experience, and overlapping it with the foreverness of oil paint, Yves emphasizes both the fleeting and the timeless within each of us.

Backgrounds left mostly raw and the contours of the images blurred, Yves hopes to convey the idea of non-locality and the possibility of being everywhere at all times through the universal connection we share.

Themes range from moments of sadness, melancholy or despair, to glances into a future built on solid foundations such as love and harmony. Always capturing the flow of being, its power and fragility.

Relentlessly striving to extract the essence of things and experiences, Yves often portrays subjects in their skeletal form - reminding the observer that beneath the identities we construct for our human experience, we are all part of a greater being, each of us a unique spark of the one.

Large scale works capture the boundlessness of what it is to exist and the often larger-than-life size figures dominate the canvas and stand on their own without additional context.

A sense of other-dimensionality hovers over the pieces pointing to the pivotal moments where we create our own realities in hopes to inspire the viewer to look within and discover what they truly envision for their lives and to realize that all realities begin with a point of attention.

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