Lucie et les papillons / Mons Belgium

I have often heard that when we loved we have butterflies in the belly, i always found this imagery funny but never felt that way but still kept this image in a corner of my mind.

Later i crossed the path of a painting depicting a couple holding each the same heart in one hand and with the other a pair of scissors, as if to ask an ultimatum: who will cut our heart first ?

I never liked this painting and even less the inevitable things it implied, and yet it fascinated me for a long time so i kept the picture in my head.

Then i became a dad and remembered those moments when love could fail.

I then thought that i didn’t want my child to ever suffer such a situation and wanted to do something that would say exactly the opposite.

At this moment the image of my daughter Lucie surrounded by butterflies, breaking a pair of scissors appeared, broken scissors so wings can never be cut.

At a time when everything is fragile and ephemeral this sculpture is a symbol of resistance and duration.