I started to produce images by computer a long while ago, at the time when I bought the first MacIntosh computer by Apple who had included a writing software, MacWrite, and a drawing one, MacPaint. I remember that, with that rather rudimentary technology, I had taken part, a few years later, in 1984, in an international venture in writing : the Marco Polo project.

The experience was to link eight francophone writers by fax or modem and to let them write daily a chapter of an ongoing novel using characters and situations interactive with each other. These chapters were then transmitted to each writer who was free to pursue on one or the other of his or her colleagues portion of the novel. I joined the project as an illustrator who would take certain situations and turn them into images using the MacPaint software which, by then, I had learn to master.

I have always been interested by the unique effects that the digital signal can produce, effects that no other medium can generate. That is probably the main reason why I kept on using it for illustration puposes, insisting on this particular uniqueness. It seems absurd to me to take a medium such as computer drawing an try to curb it into a soft pastel or a charcoal imitation.