Thirsty Painting

'Nibble slowly' is a raw love pure chocolate project I did for Elisabeth Chocolate in Paris. The 'notes on love' illustrations are inspired by the book 'How to love' by Thich Nhat Hanh. Sometimes we feel empty, we feel a vacuum, a great lack of something. We don't know the cause; it's very vague, that feeling of being empty inside is very strong. We expect and hope for something much better so we'll feel less alone, less empty. The desire to understand ourselves and to understand life is a deep thirst. There's also a deep thirst to be loved and to love. We are ready to love and to be loved. It's very natural. Because we feel empty, we try to find an object of our love. Sometimes we haven't had the time to understand ourselves, yet we already found an object of our love. We realize that all our hopes and expectations of course can't be fulfilled by that person, we continue to feel empty. You want to find something, you don't know what to search for. In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your phone many times a day!