Every Sunday, throughout the summer, a woman, author, podcaster, entrepreneur or artist opens up and shares her writing tips for getting started. This week, visual artist Tiffany Bouelle talks about her relationship to writing and how she includes it in her creative process.
Tiffany Bouelle is Franco-Japanese. For several years, she has explored, through painting, design, sculpture or even collaborations with brands, a unique universe that places women at the center. At the heart of his creative process, two essentials: synaesthesia, or how words and ideas make shapes and colors appear in his head and then on the canvas, but also writing, which has become essential in his approach. On his instagram accountshe also shares snippets of life, narrated according to important moments for her, from her daily life.
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Miss. What is your relationship to writing?
Tiffany Bouelle. A passionate love! I think my significant myopia says a lot about my passion for books, I’m one of those people who have rebuilt themselves through reading in moments of doubt and that goes hand in hand with writing. Keeping a diary, scribbling thoughts or blackening letters has always had exceptional virtues in my life.
Miss. How does it fit into your artistic practice?
Tiffany Bouelle. Today, writing has become essential on my social networks in order to make understand the evolution and the purpose of my work as a visual artist. For a very long time, I left room for the image and the imagination of my spectator, but I realized that that was no longer enough for me. It is important to justify my approach in order to involve people who take a liking to my work by my side. I started, since I was pregnant, to share my thoughts. This public exposure was a real step in my writing, it brings me great joy and serenity. The magic of writing today passes through sharing. I have been receiving poignant testimonials from women since I have been doing this and it is a real discovery of the intimate (a subject that fascinates me deeply!).
Miss. When did you start writing?
Tiffany Bouelle. I, like many, started with a diary, of which I have no archive, because I burn them. I don’t feel the need to leave this on earth. I have my paintings for that.
Miss. What time of day do you prefer to write?
Tiffany Bouelle. As soon as I wake up, after a short series of stretches, I roughly write out my first thoughts and have those moments of silence as I dig in while lying down and rested. It’s quite exquisite, I must admit.
Miss. Do you have a favorite place?
Tiffany Bouelle. In my bed, naked and ideally, sipping coffee. I also write during car or train journeys, I don’t drive, so I can take advantage of the passing landscape to reflect peacefully.
I like the idea of writing as a sport or a ritual, a practice that we begin gently to train our minds, then which leads us to a state of self-transcendence.
Tiffany Bouelle
Miss. What does it give you to write?
Tiffany Bouelle. Like any art in which I embark, the impression of overcoming my fears. And also an exquisite release.
Miss. How do you write? Are you more typewriter, notebook or computer?
Tiffany Bouelle. Purists will curse me, but I’m getting used to it. I write on my phone. This allows me to proofread anywhere, without weight constraints and above all to be able to add notes at any time without misplacing them.
Miss. Any advice for Madmoizelle readers who would like to take advantage of the summer to start writing?
Tiffany Bouelle. Me and the councils make two. What I can say is that I like the idea of writing as a sport or a ritual, a practice that we start gently to train our mind, then which leads us to a state of transcendence. You have to get started: one or two sentences in the morning like a hello to the sun.
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