CURRENT MISSION

My goal in life is to help others through art and let the music guide me

ABOUT ME

I am open-minded, tolerant and fun to travel with.
I love working with teams and my life evolves in the theme of mindfulness as I practise Bikram yoga and Buddhist Meditation everyday. I have a BA in Graphic Design, have collaborated in exhibitions in Japan and in the UK. My goal in life is to help others through art, building on my passion for Art Therapy, joining both my desire of art making and of social action: Art in Action. Art is a strong healing power and I believe that by imaging other realities through the process of art-making one is able to clarify issues and distance oneself from them. I also do a lot of photography, on my medium format hasselblad: you could check it out on:http://nomadurbangipsy.tumblr.com. I speak fluently French, English, Spanish and basic Arabic and recently came back from Burning Man

Interests

Art in all it's forms

• arts
• design
• graphic design
• photography
• social action
• yoga
• meditation
• traveling
• music
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC:

Ravi Shankar, Lou Reed, Crystal Fighters, Rodrigo Y Gabriella, Patti Smith, Caravan Palace, The Kinks, Fatboy Slim, Leonard Cohen, Anoushka Shankar, Buena Vista Social Club, Notorious B.I.G, Aeroplane, The Specials, Wax Tailor, Nina Simone, Ratatat, Nouvelle Vague, Hot Chip, Serge Gainsbourg, Four Tet, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Daft Punk, Eminem, Amr Diab, Wild Beasts, Gotan Project, Manu Chao, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Bebe, Django Reinhardt, Ástor Piazzolla, Norah Jones, Shaggy, Carlos Santana, Simian Mobile Disco, Édith Piaf, Vincent Delerm, Tracy Chapman, Carla Bruni, Justice, Antonio Vivaldi, Belle & Sebastian, CocoRosie, Gui Boratto, Bebo Y Cigala.

BOOKS:

La Belle Du Caire Naguib Mahfouz
Le Zubial Alexandre Jardin
La Nuit Des Temps René Barjavel
Un Amour De Swann Proust
L'attentat Yasmina Khadra
Les Filles De Ryad
L'étranger Camus
L'écume Des Jours Boris Vian
La Plage D'ostende Jacqueline Harpman
The Yacoubian Building

MOVIES:

The Best of Youth
Respiro
Don't Tempt Me
Volver
Talk to Her
The Method
The Sea Inside
Romanzo Criminale
The House of Flying Daggers
The Kite Runner
Lemon Tree
Annie Hall
Sleeper
Manhattan
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Trainspotting
The Dreamers

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learned arabic for a year living in Cairo. Lived and gone to university in Nagoya, Japan. Gone to Burning Man.

Teach, Learn, Share

Artists and musicians

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Oman, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Egypt, Japan, Nicaragua, United Kingdom