Comme des enfants

Before we learn division, we learn affection.

Comme des enfants captures that pure and uncomplicated connection that only children seem to understand, a bond unfiltered by judgment, status, or expectation.

Three children stand together, unselfconscious and genuine. Their closeness represents something we often lose as adults: the ability to love and connect without precondition. Children are blind to the labels that later separate us, race, class, education, difference. They see with their hearts, not their categories.

This painting reminds us that empathy is instinctive, not taught, it’s something we are born knowing.

As a French artist working in contemporary art, I’ve long been fascinated by innocence as both a visual and emotional theme. In Comme des enfants, I wanted to paint childhood not as nostalgia, but as emotional truth, the foundation from which compassion grows.

The expressionist painting techniques in this piece emphasize softness and openness. The brushwork is loose, fluid, mirroring the natural energy of youth. Layers of mixed media art add texture and depth, as if memory itself has been painted into the surface.

Color plays a vital emotional role. Using the psychology of color in art, I leaned toward warm, luminous tones, colors that feel safe and alive. These hues convey the authenticity of affection untouched by cynicism.

As part of the Comme des... series, Comme des enfants represents the beginning of a life cycle that will eventually expand to include both infancy and age, a complete study of human connection from innocence to wisdom.

Ultimately, this painting is a quiet reminder: the capacity to love freely is our earliest instinct, and perhaps our most enduring strength.