PEOPLE IN THE SUN - 1960 - Original edition 2/6 Print

WHY SEMAJ ? AS ARTIST’S NAME The latter is to be James in back slang, in memory to James JOYCE, this writer and Irish poet who aintained sulphurous exchanges with the one who was going to become his wife, Nora. Semaj also finds his foundations in the following approaches : - in the australian slang, Semaj means "fuck", in every sense of the word mean, - the number corresponding to this first name is 3, synonym for stability but also symbolism of 3 points determining a plan, - his interpretation is "creative", "sociable", "curious" and "joyful". We were all born artists. Only certain of us chose to experiment this facet of their individual. Semaj, draws and expresses himself by the image since youngest sound age. His parents, evolving in the Education, allowed him to attend course of music and drawing, very early. But Semaj did not adhere to it because he does not wish that a third person, or any established structure, teaches to him to think. He always decided to go off to explore techniques and materials, to leave his ideas and his desires to express himself freely. Semaj was always inspired by the human being, his prohibitions (imposed or not), his corporeity, his interactions with his fellow men, the pleasures and the satisfactions of the life. What awakens its art is always closely linked to the relations between individuals, essentially themes bound to the senses, that they are expressions of satisfactions or still pains (sensations closely linked and inseparable). We cannot say that Semaj is influenced by an artist, a school or a movement in particular. He is certain that any new work finds its roots in a past artistic expression. It is the mixture of the set of the made discoveries that are of use to Semaj of compost to give life to his art. The art of Semaj is profoundly anchored in its life, it is vital for him. He participates to his "meaning balance". Personal exhibitions (France, Germany and Switzerland) found date before the birth of his daughter. Then, while continuing his art, he also turned to a more stable activity in the environment of the communication in the sector of the medical biology, to meet the education of the latter. Today, his art becomes again essential, otherwise the main part. For Semaj, the main part in art, is that it can find his public, whether he is a detractor or that he adheres to it. The important remains to create emotions, feelings, reactions.