The end-of-year holidays crystallise ambivalent emotions.
Marjolaine Tassin, floral artist, and I envisioned a festive table where the sobremesa becomes a language of its own, speaking without words and revealing the subtle, layered emotional dynamics that flow between those gathered.
The sobremesa, that suspended moment when time lingers after a meal, captured our imagination with its quiet, expressive power.
1/6 NOSTALGIA: Around the table, there are the presences, but also the absences, the weight of time passing, the memory of what we once were and will no longer be.
Festivities honor moments of joy, transforming the space into a bubbling festive atmosphere. Celebration becomes the sublimation of the past year, an ode to lived experiences and shared moments.
Tensions, oppositions, and disagreements sometimes surface at this time of year, resulting in anger which, if left unchecked, bursts into the open, releasing buried feelings in a manner as brutal as it is necessary.
The youngest generation brings to the table a tender chaos of colors, games, and treats, which, imbued with spontaneity, reenchants the present moment.
Sweet words, sensory textures, declarations, connection, festivities become the climax of shared time and the promise of a future.
Amidst this chaotic bustle, between reunions and shared moments, a sense of solitude can persist, a need for withdrawal and introspection. Tinted with melancholy or simply a meditative calm, it creates space to clear the mind, making room for all that the new year promises to bring.