With Living Stones and Dead Stones I was at the outset of a prolific series (Devices, Walls and Menhirs, Cosmic Stones being the other series). This was the biggest and most homogeneous one. Its name came from the shapes that the piles of rocks I saw on a hilly landscape adopted. If there was some kind of suggestive movement among them, I called them Living Stones. Otherwise, if they remained motionless, I perceived them as dead. When I drew some of them, and to give a concise example, they acquired shapes that were divided into particular groups with a humorous touch. Others remained lonely and were ignored by the daily life that surrounded that little world in which birds, insects, flowers, fish, graffiti and texts lived together. Needless to say, this was the most inspirational of the series made at that moment.