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🌿 Spirits of the Land

An exploration of the Land and its inhabitants from the animist perspective of a French artist and expatriate living in the Pacific Northwest (USA).

Finding Home Abroad – Reflections on Being a Transplant

Finding Home Abroad – Reflections on Being a Transplant

Spring has finally arrived, blessing the land with early blooms while gentle rain showers come to nourish them. With my recent move coinciding with the changing season (a welcome synchronicity), reflections began to sprout in my mind about what it means to live and thrive in foreign soil, in an environment different from the one in which you originally grew. My journey as an expatriate – a transplant, if you will – has been one of discovery and growth, shaped…

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Winds of Change – Relocating My Art Studio

Winds of Change – Relocating My Art Studio

Hello my dear Wonder Seekers! I am writing to you from a completely different place, a realm embraced by the ancient guardians of the forest: Western Redcedars, Douglas Firs, and Sword Ferns. No, I don’t live in the depths of a remote woodland, but I found sanctuary in a house that definitely gives that feeling. And let me tell you, I’m absolutely enchanted by it! 2024 is a year of great changes in my life, and moving to a different…

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Peaceful Moments of February – Silent Vlog

Peaceful Moments of February – Silent Vlog

Hey there! I’m back filming and editing 🙂

This time I wanted to craft something a little different, and take you on a quiet and peaceful journey around the Pacific Northwest. As you may already know, I’m a French expat’ living in western Washington since 2018 and I immediately fell in love with the beauty of this area…

Moments of Winter – Pacific Northwest Magic

Moments of Winter – Pacific Northwest Magic

Here in the Pacific Northwest where I live, the Cold Season usually hasn’t much to do with your typical Winter Fairytale. In my corner of the world, you can’t really expect the magic of a snowy shimmering landscape. White is unusual, but you can always find enchantment in the most vibrant green. Trees soaked with moss and glossy ferns popping from the leaves, leftovers from earlier months. Green is the color you’re most likely to get here, going into the…

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I visited San Francisco!

I visited San Francisco!

And it was great as you’d suspect 🙂 A bit tiring though, we didn’t have much time to rest between all the different places we visited. We played it like real tourists: we took a ferry to cruise the bay under a Glorious Sun, visited different parts of the City like Chinatown and Le Castro and went to the top of Coit tower to have an overview of everything around us, we rode bikes through the Golden Gate bridge all…

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A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

I believe that ultimately […] we should take time to explore our local landscape and locate our personal places of power. That we should try to find out how to start a conversation with them. Barry Patterson – The Art of Conversation with the Genius Loci I’m currently rereading this book for the third time and, as usual, I couldn’t agree more. This particular sentence always hit me and, oddly enough, it illustrates perfectly what I’ve been up to these…

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