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Inspiration board for a graphic design & art student

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La Promenade (1870), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) — oil on canvas.

“What Pierre-Auguste Renoir himself titled this painting is unknown, but La Promenade is in part an homage to earlier artists whom he greatly admired. Renoir had spent the previous summer painting outdoors with Claude Monet, who encouraged him to move toward a lighter, more luminous palette and to indulge his penchant for luscious, feathery brushwork. Here Renoir retained something of Gustave Courbet's green-and-brown palette while choosing his subject from the sensual, lighthearted garden jaunts of eighteenth-century painters such as Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, whose works he had studied in the Louvre. Unlike the images of seduction created by his predecessors, Renoir's is a fleeting moment caught by chance--middle-class Parisians immersed in nature, possibly a local park, not set before a studio backdrop. The dappled light filtering through the foliage would become a trademark of Renoir's finest Impressionist works of the 1870s and 1880s. He used a thin, oily paint mix, his glazes here floating into each other to create depth.”

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Sara Torres, from her novel titled "X Is Where I Am," orginally published in March 2026

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Mountaineer Matthias Gribi (2000,🇨🇭) for Millet

Milestones achievements

On expedition: 

Cholatse (6440m) and North-East ridge of Kongde Ri (6100m, 6a max)

1st repetition of the South-West ridge of Chomochior (6300m), Kishtwar

Opening of “Tomorrow is another day”, ED, 1400m, WI4, M6, A2, 5c, on the north face of Flat Top. Ascent awarded a Piolet d'Or in 2024.

In the Alps:

Complete Peuterey in two days

Central pillar of Le Freney

Mitchka on La Meije in free climbing

Bonatti route on the Matterhorn

Padre Pio + Une échelle vers le ciel on the Matterhorn, 1300m, 41l, 7b+, day trip

Projects 2025

Seize weather opportunities to do the routes I dream of in the Alps (mixed, climbing, winter, summer). Start working as an aspiring guide. And an autumn expedition to the Himalayas with, if possible, the opening of a new route on a 7000m summit.

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Golden Lake (Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan), May 31, 2016, from the ISS. NASA/Tim Kopra

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Frankenstein. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.

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Snapshot from a rainy Sunday lunch in Provence at La Gonette | Jamie Beck

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A Light exists in Spring

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period — When March is scarcely here

A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay —

A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.

— Emily Dickinson (The Complete Poems, 1896)

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Antarctica by David Mantripp

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Digestive typeface | Jérémy Landes (Studio Triple), 2020.

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Casa Malaparte | Dariusz Jasak

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Greyish blue sapphire gemstones from Madagascar

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The sunlit room, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (Danish, 1863-1935). Oil on canvas, 54x48cm.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

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La Maison des Feuilles (original title : House of Leaves), Mark Z. Danielewski, éditions Monsieur Toussaint Louverture (2022). Translation from english (USA) by Claro. 17x23,5 cm. 702 pages.

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"今日のbouquet☺︎☺︎☺︎" | icca. X/Twitter (5 Mar, 2025).

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A snow covered treee in front of a building in Kyoto, Japan | Yanhao Fang