PORTRAIT
WHO IS MORGANE ROSPARS?
When I was little, I wanted to "be a mermaid when I grew up." I had a postcard of one of these creatures in my room. Its tail was embroidered with iridescent threads. All that beauty drove me crazy.
Her choice was made and her professional future clearly mapped out. But since things didn't go as planned, she turned to art, creation, and drawing.
So, she started school: in Applied Arts, to be precise. She earned her high school diploma after 3 years of preparation in various disciplines, techniques, and art history. She then extended her training with 2 years of studies dedicated to graphic design.
Then the terrifying doors of the working world opened: which she entered, not without difficulty. She became a salaried graphic designer in fashion for 10 years, before closing that chapter.
And now she is as free as the wind: 12 years ago, on a whim, she decided to create bookplates and went freelance.
THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
My favorite virtue.
Courage (or being a mermaid).
The quality I prefer in others.
Humor in any circumstance (even the worst ones).
What I appreciate most in my friends.
That they are funny.
My main flaw.
Stubborn…
My favorite occupation.
Singing to lure ships.
My dream of happiness.
A house by the sea. But really, truly right by the sea.
What would be my greatest misfortune.
Becoming an employee again.
What I would like to be.
Mick Jagger.
The country where I would like to live.
A country where people stop saying "at this day in time".
The color I prefer.
Black! Or navy blue? Ugh… burgundy?
The flower I love.
Peony or Ranunculus.
The bird I prefer.
The heron.
My favorite prose authors.
I don't like poetry at all.
My heroes in fiction.
Georges in Quentin Dupieux's *Deerskin* or Joseph Cooper in *Interstellar*.
My favorite painters.
Vallotton, Léger, Kandinsky, Malevich, Ingres, Cueco, the Delaunays.
My hero in history.
Jean-Pierre Melville.
What I hate above all else.
Feeling tired during the day.
The military feat I admire most.
When I was little, I was afraid of having to do military service (almost as much as the ball pit, which I thought had no bottom…).
The gift of nature I would like to have.
Traveling in space.
How I would like to die.
Never.
My current state of mind.
I am doubting.
My favorite motto.
If you don't have a head, you have legs. (what Grandma always used to tell me).
There, now you know everything.