Steevens Veins was born in 1971... Then the adventure continues.
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As a child, he was already intrigued by his environment, but especially by the questioning of our physical existence, our place on earth. It can be said that his relationship with nature, with matter in all its forms, fascinates him. To find with one's neighbour one's place, in all situations of life, with this awareness of "being".
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He grew up with many questions that persist, especially since he had to keep these emotions in him in order not to reinforce the misunderstanding of those around him when faced with "unsuitable" questions. Totally misunderstood in his young age and in this introspective search, the path of the solitary began very early, and to be honest, fortunately for Steevens!
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Images, dreams, drawings, photos, already a feeling in need, to create to give meaning to this consciousness, and to make it live at all costs through small experiences, the desire to learn and to multiply opportunities.
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A strong and unexpected trigger, it passed at the age of 14, at the sight of a bodybuilding competition. this revelation gave it a new sense of inequality in order to define itself by another reality. Just like the artist or sculptor, matter is our own physics, or the limits are not defined, to express our personality, our mode of free expression, in a mental and physical schema. A legal and regulatory aspect allowed a structured framework, which gave him a path in programming, training, execution, and with a large part of creativity.
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This new balance had really brought him, and still does today, as unwavering foundations for all his life projects. The most beautiful synthesis is this ability to motivate one's own mental and creative visualization to realize oneself.
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In these words, the thoughts, the images, the "photosensitivity" of his person, revealed his place and his ability to feel things around him, the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, the invisible. The fact of capturing the present moment, and expressing it, the mental vision of these moments and desires have intrinsically revealed this attraction to photography.
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Resistance or obstacles to its development did not help to achieve it in the desired period... to its greatest surprise and in a total paradox, it is the family and protective straitjacket that was the greatest difficulty to emerge, and to highlight the foundations and motivations of these projects and "dreams".
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In hindsight, how can you blame loved ones who love you? Societal formatting and some myths have a hard life, which leads to stereotypes of education and recruitment directed towards professional success, and relative recognition.
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In other words, the way and the choice to be "sportsman - artist" are not conventional and a source of failure guaranteed for the greatest number of people! As for the fact that his relatives are questioning themselves through dialogue, has not had the success expected.... Indeed, to the big question of "why shouldn't I live what I have to live for my well-being?", the answers were sharp and not debatable... if we ask them to justify, well... there is nothing to complain about, everything is written for them, it reassures them.
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The only son he is could write a book called "My loneliness....With others!"
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A life in the tertiary sector, then in sport, did not overwhelm the sleeping artist. This "coming-out", the one-way without return, is now unequivocally clear at 47 years of age. He therefore takes advantage of this professional triptych as an author-writer to lean back on the status of author-photographer to reveal his artistic expression.
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This rebirth could not be otherwise than now in the accomplishment of a life, the fire that is in it only asks to burst forth. He feels it, there, strong, pushing him inexorably to assume this transition of the moment "T". It is his habit to jump into the water to move forward and be in the reality of a situation, allowing him to make just choices, to assume and realize the passage.
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In fact, it is a certainty that must have been, he was able to live and understand his past experiences, to better assume himself and exacerbate photographic expression. He is thirsty for knowledge and new experiences, he knows deep down that his choice is right and pure. From the depths of his being, he communicates with nature, matter, the visible and the invisible and expresses my emotions.
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His first wishes as an author-photographer are first of all to "set up", to announce his first choices, clichés, series responding to various themes of "abstract reality", "the invisible", phantasmagoric, "abstract expressionism" in this contemporary world.
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The correlation with difficult moments, are in fact the ingredients of rain and sun towards the process of success, life is a rainbow!
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Today he can only go to the essential, there is no longer any conditioned reflection. He must bring out repressed feelings, joys, fears, love, questions in his work. He has always been "him", but with a certain restraint, now it will be without, just like a flanged engine, we release him to make him breathe, this is his way!
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That is why he is once again experiencing a tremendous opportunity in an appropriate moment, first of all through new knowledge that has been formidable on the human level, through listening, through understanding what I could express in the artistic world. The support of experienced practitioners in painting, photography, psychology, carry it, comfort it and they push to show and express the other person it is
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In the projects of a lifetime, if he has understood one important thing, it is that people give up too early, and do not have a "focus" adapted to the path they want. This turning point is necessary, transmitting has always been a vocation for him, he must live this experience fully, it will be intense in emotions.
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Just like a gift, seeing the other person's gaze welcoming you is the most beautiful thing there is.
We all have our audience, it intends to give as many people as possible a different view of our existence, our environment, and that everything in the visible and invisible is very real.
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It is enough to see, to be in the resonance of a photo, a sculpture, a painting. The artist's message and his inner questioning!
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It is a rebirth that gives him more inspiration to communicate to all about our presence, in the depths of our being. To feel this inseparable whole with matter, images, thought, and to knock on the door of our unconscious, to finally reach the universal consciousness.
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Steevens Hill