Don Quixote de La Mancha – the dreamer who fights impossible battles, a figure of courage and illusion.

Tribute to Imagination

This three-part series was born from the unfiltered creativity of my oldest daughter Amelie when she was only 1.5 years old. In her spontaneous brushstrokes, marks made without intention I recognized the seeds of powerful forms: a knight, a butterfly, and a rooster. From those gestures, I built a dialogue between her innocence and my artistic vision, weaving together two generations of imagination.

This painting was born from an extraordinary source: the subconscious vision of my daughter, who at just a year and a half old created a spontaneous abstract form. In her innocent brushstrokes, I recognized the outlines of a figure both fragile and powerful, and from that seed I reimagined Don Quixote De La Mancha. This piece is not only a tribute to Cervantes’s timeless character, but also to the fearless imagination of a child: pure, unrestrained, and unburdened by reason. In combining the vision of my daughter with my own hand, the painting becomes a dialogue across generations: a reminder that imagination, in its innocence and audacity, is what allows us to create our own worlds.