Since childhood, I've felt a special kinship to everyday objects. Although fundamentally I'm not an animist, I do believe that objects are not insensitive. Do inanimate objects have souls? I'd tend to say yes. This project with Camille Fournet allows me to probe more deeply into the inner life of watchstraps and bags. Those two objects, which have the capacity of taking us by the hand or pulling us by the sleeve, may have something to tell us that hasn't yet been revealed.

I don't have a very proactive attitude toward my projects. I simply brood over them. As soon as there's the slightest hint of an idea about what I could do, I slip that little seed into a corner of my mind and let it grow as it pleases. I feel its presence all the time, but I never force things. It finds everything it needs there to nurture itself. And when the time is right, it hatches like a chick from its egg.