Snake Collection

Stéphane Humbert Lucas is embarking on the symbolic adventure of the snake, collecting stories and legends from all over the world.

A totem animal, majestic for different peoples, or yet again adornments, incarnations and distrust — there is so much to explore. Nothing more delightful and inspiring than the creation of a collection reminiscent of carnivals and distant theatres, both honorary and musical, philosophical or sacred, based on this sensual, breath-taking monster?

Finding the fabulous story, the beautiful character, the attraction, colour and fragrance, like Ariadne’s thread, making it possible to remain faithful to desire and obsession, and finding the right moult, the right combination, the formula, like a saga, an opera, a book of tales.

It is a journey made of successive undulations and connections, like meticulous archaeological work, combining speed and slowness. Everything moves and everything comes to a standstill, in an unparalleled stream, a flow that becomes clearer with each cutting, each personification.

An escapade in «Sovereignty» and in Poetry where you hypnotise and let yourself be hypnotised,. From Mexico to China, from reality to limitless imagination...