La grande messe des vagabonds

This book is structured around various accounts from the author’s personal life, weaving together his travels, unusual encounters, and sacred discoveries. It brings together many of his creations, such as drawings, paintings, photographs, and sources of inspiration. The book highlights the artist’s universe and his interest in different ways of being in the world, as well as on the possibility of transforming chance experiences into joyful discoveries. It celebrates sidesteps that become fertile wanderings; anomalies and mistakes; and the creative use of the unexpected, the formless, and the non-conforming. A tribute to the heuristic power of vagabonds, geniuses, flâneurs, resourceful people, walkers, dreamers, and inhabitants of the margins and the sidelines, those who crisscross the world, listening to their inner voice and letting themselves be carried along, illustrious protagonists of a poetics of ordinary life.