Do you see beauty as something that always contains its own ending?

Beauty does lie in impermanence in some ways. We appreciate those gifted moment of beauty because they will never exist again. 

We spoke while taking pictures about heartbreak, and how transformative it can be. I sensed that for you, it feels almost like a necessity of becoming.

Breakups often come when you have reached a limit within yourself. I learned to appreciate their value and the transformation they bring. How to transmute the pain into something enriching and use it as a catalyst to evolve towards the next level of my life.

Each of them brought a better version of myself which now became almost exciting. Like what’s my next upgrade?! 

Also and paradoxically, I’ve never felt as alive as when I am in pain. It’s just so vivid as a feeling. So out of this world. It’s beautiful.

I might secretly love breakups indeed ! 

How do you relate to the archetypes of the heartbreaker and the heartbroken?

I'm not sure. I always left. But I left because I was heartbroken within my relationships. I feel I broke my own heart many times as well from my own delusions. So I guess Heartbreaker, of others and my own :)

Do you feel that creation requires rupture or disturbance?

Discomfort maybe? 

What were some key moments in your life that shaped how Pandora became Pandora? 

Every moment added to the global sum. Some experience did shaped me more than others for sure. But I would say the most violent things brought the most valuable growth.  My Saturn return was a big turning point. I went into a place in my head I never thought I could return and eventually had to let myself die to slowly rebirth. 

Pandora had to die many times to be the Pandora of today.

As a child, what were you like? What kind of environment did you grow up in?

I grew up next to a farm, out in nature, always playing outside hanging with animals and covered in mud. In a village where my family use to live, near a lake where we would spend our summers in water, In the middle of the Swiss mountains. Apparently I was always giggling and super easy. My parents shlepped me around everywhere. I didn't go  to school until I was 5 and moved to Paris. My mum use to call me my little monkey cause I would climb everywhere I could. 

What is the best advice your mother ever gave you?

When I was a 17-18 and up to no good, my mum told me 'Do what you want, it’s your life, not mine’ and I think that really woke me up. If I fucked it up, it was MY problem in the end and my problem only. I slowly decided to get my life on track and make the most out of it because yes... it's MY LIFE. 

And your father?

That my sensibility was my biggest weapon. He also taught me self respect, especially with men. He use to tell me I was very a special flower and that not everyone deserved the access to that. As a girl and a woman, that was a crucial one.

And a friend?

To live my life freely and not care about other’s opinion.

And a stranger?

YOLO. It was a waiter at a restaurant. I had fallen in love with a stranger and I asked the waiter what language he was speaking as he had left. Where he was from. The waiter asked me why I didn't go talk to him if I liked him that much, I responded I was too shy, that I would never do that.
He told me YOLO you silly.
Luckily Life reconnected me with that Stranger in some cosmic ways - l was still scared but I knew I needed to see him again and I just kept on hearing 'yolo' in my head over and over. I eventually found the courage to reach out, we saw again and shorty after I moved to Mexico.

In your recent show On the Edge of Bloom, there is this sense that as soon as something arises, it is already promised to pass. There’s also an invitation for the viewer to enter that experience themselves. When was a time in your life where you fully allowed yourself to enter that truth?

I grew up with death and the big changes that it can bring. I learned very early that life can drastically shift from a second to another. That death wasn’t an end and that there is immense beauty in it. Paradoxically when something dies, it becomes eternal and things can bloom from that fatality in most magic ways. Nothing is forever and that’s what makes life so special. Once you fully understand that, things get lighter and more precious. Every moment starts to count a million times more.

Your work often feels like a space where pleasure and detachment coexist—where something can be fully experienced, yet not held onto. What would you say to someone who is afraid to fully experience life?

Nothing is worse than the bitter taste of regret.
Just go for it. 
Try, dare, get lost to find yourself. 
Don’t be scared to get hurt because you will no matter what, so might as well choose what will hurt you with an open heart and live fully.

Have you ever made something you didn’t understand—or didn’t even like—until later?

I have a few unfinished work that still need maceration or reflexion. a lot of my work took time to be done until I understood what I wanted to do.

I often go back to things and change them until I’m fully happy. They are in constant study or laboratory mood.

What is your favorite piece from your recent body of work, and why?

I love them all, they are my babies !! But maybe my insect flower candle holders in bronze, they feel like little creatures, I love their alien presence.

What role does ritual play in your creative process?

I feel I’m a very ritualistic person and constantly invent new rituals with myself, how I put intentions in my work and how I want them to echo into the world.

And what role does ritual play in your everyday life?

Everything can be a ritual if you put intention or meaning into it. From cooking to a beauty routine.. I feel its all about reinventing rituals with ourselves and putting more purpose into small gestures of the everyday in a playful and meaningful way.

Do you believe in angels, spirits, or ancestors?

Definitely.

Everyone has their own way of connecting to something beyond themselves. If you were to describe how you pray, or communicate with the divine—what would that look like?

I constantly speak to someone when I think. I’m in a constant conversation with someone or something.

If you had a spirit animal walking beside you, what would it be?

I’ve dreamed a few times that my shadow was the shape of a dragon. So I would say a Dragon.

What is something no one would expect or know about you—a Pandora surprise? 

My real name is not Pandora.

Nah Joking !

Imagine.. !

What is something you are still trying to understand through your work?

How to make the world a better place.

If you could tell the story of how Pandora came to be, in just a few words—what would they be?

She opened that box :) 

There is also an element in your work that touches on darkness—what you’ve described as a kind of “beautiful evil.” What does evil mean to you? And how do you relate to, or even dance with that darkness?

Evil is something religion invented to control mankind. Anything that is degenerated could be called as evil. Anything that is not aligned with the cosmic laws of creation.  Darkness is slightly different. It’s the others side of the spectrum. The polarity that makes the good be able to be. Nothing exists without its contrary. Duality is one of the hermetic principle of this world. One can not exist without its opposite.

I have been very curious about darkness and flirted with it. I got burned and I have to say that it’s through my darkest time that I found the most grace and light. I definitely learn to dance through fire and that’s how I grew the most. Phoenix style. Rebirthing from my ashes more flamboyant than ever. I think at some point you just know, when you are back in limbo that something magical will happen at the end of the tunnel. And you just bite it through knowing in your heart that everything is meant to be and is perfect exactly as it is. The sun will rise again and even brighter.