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“I was returning from my trip aboard the La Jeanne d’Arc helicopter carrier, where I met
the Yellow Dog Aircraft director, a character whose portrait I shot. Returning to my workshop, immersed in my binders and contact sheets,
I found photographs of an object from Kenzo’s collection that he had entrusted to me: a magnificent Indian axe the balance of which one feels when
one seizes it by the handle, making one want to spin it around in space.
I suddenly imagined combining these two components, seeing the axe as an aircraft steered by the Yellow Dog.”