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First of all, in all large groups, you inevitably have constraints and opportunities. But there comes a time when, inevitably, there are breaking points, the balance, if it does not suit you, disturbs you: this was the case for Lise, the balance being broken, she decided to take another direction in her life.

Another event was also the trigger for this profound questioning that would strongly influence the course of her career and her life. Her father became seriously ill and died shortly after his retirement. “It was so unfair”. “You don’t have to wait until retirement to do things that are essential to you. Life is here and now, because later on, you don’t know”.

Finally, Lise moved from Paris to the greater suburbs in a real house with space. She rediscovered her roots: painting, working with materials, nature. She had never totally abandoned painting throughout her life, but it was not easy for her to let her artistic soul express itself in an apartment in Paris, with a family life and the education of two young children. There, in her new home, she had “finally” a real space. “The greenery returned, the painting returned, the reconstruction, it reconnected me to a certain spirituality, to the sacred”.